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 15-20 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 B2/C1 Tech Lesson Flow?
This Lesson Flow offers 18 main lessons with follow-ups for students passionate about technology. It helps them develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills while exploring thought-provoking tech topics and completing practical tasks that strengthen grammar and vocabulary.
Developing language skills
With this B2/C1 Tech Lesson Flow, your students will work on:
- speaking skills while talking about trends and fads, the metaverse, NFTs, advantages and disadvantages of living forever, open-source software, cybercrime, OSINT, crime-fighting technologies, the influence of drones, future technologies, trends in healthcare, work-life balance after lockdown; while discussing remote work and digital nomads, 3D printing, design engineering, e-sports and video games, AI image generators, space exploration and space debris, regulating big tech, energy sources, smart devices, Agile method;
- listening skills with explainer videos on the difference between trends and fads, the mindset of a design engineer; promo videos from Meta and Apple; a Business Insider video, a Bloomberg video about hackers; videos on open-source software, crime detection technologies, a drone light display, 3D food printing, e-sports and the Olympics; news reports on Google office policies and AI in the film industry; a video with tips for working from home; a video on renewable energy;
- reading skills with articles on immortality in the metaverse, how to protect bank accounts from hackers, video games as an art form, how online images affect perception, space junk; stories about the past; two texts on new technologies in the film industry; short text about technology regulation, article discussing advantages and disadvantages of smart appliances;
- writing skills while writing sentences and rewriting emails.
Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language
The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:
- vocabulary: phrases for making predictions and expressing likelihood, expressions to talk about trends, verb-adverb collocations, cybercrime vocabulary, online activities and information, vocabulary for expressing opinions, vocabulary about workplace changes, advanced multiword verbs, vocabulary to describe manufacturing processes, sport-related vocabulary, film-related phrases, rules and laws vocabulary, energy-related vocabulary, collocations with the word ‘family’;
- grammar: intensifiers, past tenses (Past Perfect Continuous, Past Continuous, Past Simple, Past Perfect Simple), future tenses (Future Continuous, Future Perfect), verb patterns, conditionals review (First, Second, Third and Mixed Conditional).
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