What is a Lesson Flow?
Lesson Flow is a sequence of lessons, designed to take your student on a particular learning journey. A flow contains around 15 lessons covering the four skills as well as vocabulary, grammar and functional language. The additional follow-up lesson suggestions offer extra opportunities for reading and speaking practice, as well as targeted grammar exercises related to the topic. Lesson Flows are compilations of pre-existing ESL Brains lessons, but with a new purpose of helping teachers navigate learning in a more structured way. They serve as guidelines that you can and should customize by adding or removing lessons based on your students’ needs.
What’s inside the A2 General Lesson Flow?
This pre-intermediate flow should be used with students who already know their basics and are ready to start communicating in English. The lessons in the flow introduce lots of vocabulary and grammar structures which are practised in speaking and provide numerous opportunities for students to work on their listening and speaking skills.
Developing language skills
With this A2 General Lesson Flow, your students will work on:
- speaking skills while talking about learning English, describing plans, talking about people and explaining how they feel in different situations, describing houses and cities, making excuses, comparing devices, talking about shopping and spending money, discussing travelling and favourite food;
- listening skills with a video in which people play a guessing game; street interviews in which people answer questions about their dream home, travelling, favourite food and summer plans; a clip from the film ‘Inside Out’; two videos about technology; a video about the cost of living; an animated story; a ketchup ad; a skit on ordering in a restaurant; a news report about city transport;
- reading skills with a text about travelling, when reading some excuses, placards and a menu;
- writing skills when writing a story, funny definitions and an email about a dream holiday.
Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language
The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:
- vocabulary related to: money, travelling, food, city, home; adjectives to describe how people feel;
- grammar: Present Simple and Present Continuous, Past Simple and Past Continuous, ‘be going to’, questions in different tenses, comparatives and superlatives, prepositions of time, quantifiers and defining relative clauses;
- functional language: expressing opinions and functional language at a restaurant.
Want to learn more?
If you’re not sure how to use our Lesson Flows or need more guidance, you can read more about them here or message us via chat or the contact form. Let us help you save some prep time and make your teaching life easier!
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