B2 General Lesson Flow

What’s inside the B2 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 the English language, personal life, hobbies, habits, friendships, the validity of online advice, cyberfraud, art, social media and body dysmorphia, resilience, pets and economy, eating and cooking, marriage, birth order and personality, Agile Methodology, different ways of apologizing, different ways of communicating, sustainable hotels, regrets, productivity, creativity and tourism; while doing games and role-plays;
• listening skills with a podcast about the English language; with video explainers on small talk and on how our brains work; with TED Talks on the Agile method, travelling more and buying less; with an excerpt from the TV show Friends and one from the show The Big Bang Theory; with an interview about regrets, a celebrity interview and The Atlantic video about overtourism; with reports on foodie culture, recycling, contemporary art, birth order and Dutch directness; with a recipe video; with videos on productivity, the validity of online advice, resilience and work-life balance; 
• reading skills with articles on prenups, cyberfraud, ways to apologize at work and productivity apps;
• writing skills while rewriting sentences; while writing recipes, dialogues, short paragraphs, 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 and food idioms, family collocations and phrasal verbs, adjectives to talk about communication styles, collocations to talk about resilience and other common collocations, personality adjectives, phrases with the word ‘habit’, words connected to travelling and technology, phrasal verbs;
• grammar: different uses of Present Continuous, Future Continuous and Future Perfect; structures with ‘use to’; structures for expressing regrets (I wish…, If only…, I should have…, I regret…); conditional structures; Reported Speech; 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 contact us at [email protected]. Let us help you save some prep time and make your teaching life easier!

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