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 B1 General Lesson Flow?
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.
Developing language skills
With this B2 General Lesson Flow, your students will work on:
- speaking skills while talking about jobs, personal life, hobbies, phone addiction, social media and body dysmorphia, crime-fighting technologies, pets and economy, eating and cooking, Agile Methodology, different ways of apologizing, habits, cashless society, regrets, obstacles to travelling and productivity; while doing games and role-plays;
- listening skills with a video about work-life balance, a small talk explainer, a news report on phone and social media addictions, ads, TED Talks, an excerpt from the TV show Friends, a video about how our brain works, The Economist video on the cashless future, an interview about regrets, a celebrity interview, videos on overtourism and productivity;
- reading skills with articles on social media reliance, ways to apologize at work and various productivity apps;
- writing skills while rewriting sentences, writing recipes and dialogues, writing questions and answers.
Improving grammar, vocabulary and functional language
The Flow also makes your students learn and practise:
- vocabulary: phrasal verbs for communication, cooking verbs, family collocations and phrasal verbs, phrases with ‘habit’, money phrases and idioms, words connected with travelling, phones and technology;
- grammar: phrases for expressing preferences (‘would rather’, ‘would prefer’ and ‘prefer’), the different uses of Present Continuous, Future Continuous and Future Perfect, structures with ‘used to’, expressing regrets (I wish…, If only…, I should have…, I regret…), other useful structures (‘have someone do something’, ‘get something done’ and ‘get someone to do something’);
- functional language: making small talk, expressing opinions, saying ‘no’ politely, expressing and responding to regrets.
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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