This B2 General Lesson Flow is perfect for students who need to strengthen their upper-intermediate grammar and expand their vocabulary and functional language for everyday interactions. With a strong focus on speaking skills, it also includes reading and grammar follow-up lessons for extra practice. 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 B2/C1 Tech Lesson Flow?
This Lesson Flow offers 17 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 about: 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, protecting bank accounts from hackers, video games, how online images affect perception, space junk; stories about the past; 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: past tenses (Past Perfect Continuous, Past Continuous, Past Simple, Past Perfect Simple), future tenses (Future Continuous, Future Perfect), passive voice revision, verb patterns, conditionals review (First, Second, Third and Mixed Conditional).
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