This B1/B2 Lesson Flow helps students improve various aspects of their English language skills. It’s a sequence of lessons that will boosts their confidence through authentic listening and diverse speaking tasks. Students will also improve their grammar and vocabulary while practising new language through a range of speaking tasks. Read the full flow breakdown
This is a Lesson Flow, a sequence of 15-20 lessons, with additional ‘follow up’ lesson suggestions. The Flows are compilations of pre-existing ESL Brains lessons, but with a new purpose of helping teachers navigate learning in a more structured way. Learn more about it here.
What’s inside the B1/B2 General Lesson Flow?
This flow helps students improve various aspects of their English language skills. It boosts their confidence through authentic listening materials and diverse speaking tasks. Students also develop their grammar and vocabulary, while practising new language through a range of speaking activities.
Developing language skills
With this B1/B2 General Lesson Flow, your students will work on:
- speaking skills while talking about: films, art and art activism, trying out new hobbies and different foods; while debating: age limits for different activities, a ban on smoking, climate change and how to avoid being a victim of a crime; when discussing: emotions, hosting a party, holiday accommodation, bucket lists, guilty pleasure and what people are often grateful for; when talking about: cybersecurity, problems in cities, flying cars, emotions, digital parenting, memes, superstitions and culture shock; when role-playing different situations;
- listening skills with videos about: sci-fi films, artists in New York, hobbies, youth activists and passkeys; with news reports on: voting age in New Zealand, vacation guilt, crime, problems in big cities, college degrees, social media ban in Australia, people in romantic relationships with AI and driverless buses; with videos in which people: thank their teachers, give advice on hosting a party, talk about identity theft, share experience in digital parenting, discuss healthy food, share how they became a meme, talk about Airbnb rentals, about their bucket list and what culture shock is; with a film trailer; with a podcast about the English language;
- reading skills when reading articles about a prodigy, a ban on cigarettes and robot chefs;
- writing skills while writing stories in the past and a thank you letter; while creating memes.
Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language
The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:
- vocabulary: adjectives to describe art, collocations to talk about higher education, phrases to talk about activism, emotion adjectives, phrases ‘be required to’ and ‘be supposed to’, vocabulary related to nutrition, phrasal verbs and other phrases to talk about success, adjectives to describe accommodation, phrases to talk about problems in big cities, words and phrases to talk about climate change;
- grammar: narrative tenses (Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect), Present Perfect Continuous, modal verbs of permission and obligation, passive voice, First and Second Conditional, conjunctions for expressing contrast;
- functional language: expressing preferences, saying thank you and reacting to it, hosting guests, giving and responding to praise.
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Thank you for creating these lesson flows , they are of great value for myself and my students , you are an innovative team and thats why I am a faithful member of ESL BRAINS.
Would you be able to add more concept questions to the lessons?
Kind regards and appreciation for your work.
Maria Trillo