| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this ESL lesson on quantifiers are to:
- practise quantifiers in various contexts;
- watch a video about employee satisfaction;
- discuss work conditions and employee feedback.
With this lesson, students work with quantifiers (e.g. a few, many, hardly any, etc.), discuss job satisfaction and watch a video about an employee satisfaction survey. They also talk about and give their opinion on different work conditions.
This is a Flipped Classroom lesson plan. In a nutshell, it means that the first part of the lesson needs to be done by students at home. Learn more about flipped classroom and how we implement it in these lesson plans in our post.
PRE-CLASS ACTIVITIES
Before this ESL lesson on quantifiers begins, students read sentences (e.g. The company has few customers so they aren’t making a lot of money.) and answer questions about the differences between ‘few’, ‘a few’, ‘little’ and ‘a little’. After that, they complete statements in dialogues with those quantifiers. Then, students read the dialogues again and put the underlined quantifiers (e.g. many, much, some, etc.) in the correct group (countable nouns, uncountable nouns and both).
IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
In this part of the ESL lesson on quantifiers, students choose the correct quantifier in employee satisfaction survey answers (e.g. There is some/a few support available when I have a problem at work.). After that, they read the sentences again and say whether they think the people are satisfied with their job or not. Next, students complete sentences about employee satisfaction with their own ideas. Afterwards, they watch the first part of a video about employee satisfaction and tick the points that are mentioned. Following that, students answer questions about employee satisfaction. Then, they watch the second part of the video about the survey question “How likely are you to recommend your company as a place of work?” and answer the questions. Following this, students discuss questions about employee feedback. Next, they complete pairs of statements about job trade-offs and compromises with quantifiers. Finally, students choose the situation they’d prefer in each pair of statements and explain their choices.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This lesson plan also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students imagine they are the manager and their company got a bad score on the employee satisfaction survey. They come up with ideas on how to improve the situation and write sentences using quantifiers. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
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Very interesting lesson, but I guess the slides could be reorganized, to start with the warm up and, only after the video, move on to the grammar practice. I’ll use this lesson today, I guess my student will like it.
Thanks, Veronica! Glad you found it interesting. As for the structure, this lesson follows our ‘Flipped Classroom’ model, in which part of the lesson is done by the student before class. You can read more Flipped lessons here.
Hope that helps!
This was a little confusing for my students – for example, why is “more” not a highlighted as a quantifier? Why “almost all” instead of “all”?
Thank you for the feedback. We’re sorry to hear it was confusing and we see your point! We’ve now changed the task a bit and highlighted ‘more’ as a quantifier to make it clearer – thank you for spotting that! We have, however, decided against using it as a target quantifier throughout the lesson, as it’s not challenging enough for B1. As for ‘almost all’, there is a debate on whether this should be considered a ‘quantifier’ or a ‘quantifying expression’ (the same might be said about ‘hardly any’). Regardless, just like ‘more’, ‘all’ is still too easy to focus on in a B1 lesson, so we chose to make it more advanced. Hope that helps!
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Excellent lesson, my students have truly enjoyed going through this material!
That’s great to hear, Pete! Thanks for your feedback 🙂