| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- learn and practise commonly confused words in various scenarios;
- listen to and discuss a conversation between two people;
- share personal opinions and experiences.
Students build vocabulary through suffixes, prepositions and homophones. They explore differences in meaning and use, apply words in different contexts and share their thoughts. Students also listen to a conversation between two friends, read a story about life in a new country and play two truths and one lie.
B2 / Upper Intermediate60 minStandard LessonUnlimited Plan
SUFFIXES -IC/-ICAL
Students explore commonly confused words with different meanings (e.g. historic and historical). They choose the correct ones to complete gaps in pairs of sentences. Students then work in pairs and practise the words. They take turns describing items from a list (e.g. a historic event in your country) without naming them, while the other guesses what they are talking about.
VERBS
In this activity, students read a story about adapting to a new country and choose the correct words (e.g. immigrate/migrant/emigrate) to complete it. They then choose the correct words in questions about different topics. Next, students respond using the word they didn’t choose.
HOMOPHONES
Students listen to a conversation between two people. They decide if statements are true or false and correct the false ones. Students listen again and complete gaps with words they hear. They then use the correct form of the commonly confused words to complete opinions on different topics. Students share their thoughts on the statements.
PREPOSITIONS
Students match pairs of sentences containing different prepositions (e.g. between, among) with the correct pictures. They then describe a photo of a busy city street using the words from the previous task. Students add details about themselves or their experience.
MISCELLANEOUS
In this task, students complete commonly confused words (e.g. dessert and desert) in pairs of dialogues with the correct letters. They then use the words they created to write statements about themselves: two truths and one lie. Their partner listens to their statements and guesses the lie. Students take turns until they have used all the words.
WORKSHEETS
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shouldn’t the second word be MIGRATE?
When Marta decided to immigrate/migrant/emigrate from her home country
to the UK, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. She would have to
🧠 Easy way to remember:
Immigrate = In
Emigrate = Exit
Lignum, That’s a great way to remember it! I’m sure many teachers and students will find it really helpful – thanks for sharing!
MarkM, “Migrant” is a conscious choice here, as using “migrate” would work in both cases and create a double key. Besides, the aim of the task is to practise the difference between immigrate and emigrate, so it’s helpful to focus on those specifically.
It seems like an easygoing lesson, but it still practices essential words that are important in life. I really like it, thank you!
There’s a mistake on slide 33.. It says “make with a fresh tomatoes”.
Also, shouldn’t economic and economical be switched on the first exercise?
Hi! Thanks for letting us know, we’ve just fixed that! Re economic and economical, the answers are correct the way they are presented in the teacher’s version.
Very good lesson plan. It would be great to have more of this type 🙂
Thanks so much for the suggestion – we really appreciate it and will definitely keep that in mind!
There is a mistake with the A B C on slides 17-20. Instead of going A B C it goes A A, C C C and then on the answer slides it goes A A A, D D.
This doesn’t match with the handouts
Hi! Is it possible that you are looking at a copy of the presentation which you’ve made some changes to? This might explain why the numbering is flawed. If you look at the original presentation, slides 17-20 have points: A, B, C, D and E (like in the pfds).
OK for some reason it gets changed when you download a copy as a Powerpoint presentation
That makes sense. Downloading the presentation in PowerPoint might affect the formatting unfortunately.