Topic: City
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min
Community gardening
Global IssuesEngage in the exploration of gardening with this lesson! Students review vocabulary, talk about their experiences and watch a video on community gardens. They also elaborate on how they would create a community garden and discuss different ideas for city agriculture.
Standard Lesson 60 min
Revitalized neighbourhoods or ghost towns?
Global IssuesWith this intriguing lesson, students explore the concept of ‘gentrification’ and its impacts. They explore and practise vocabulary related to the topic, watch a short video, analyse opinions and examine solutions for gentrification challenges.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
Towards a car-free future
Global Issues GrammarThis flipped lesson focuses on a grammar topic of double comparatives and a discussion about car-free cities. Students watch a video and work with grammar on their own. In the lesson, they have more speaking practice and creative work.
Standard Lesson 60 min
What is your city like? (too much, too many, enough/not enough)
Global Issues Grammar LifestyleIn this lesson students practise the use of quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns (too much, too many, (not) enough) while talking about typical problems faced by most cities.
Flipped Lesson 60 min
Plogging ‐ make yourself and the planet better
Global Issues LifestyleThis lesson plan on saving the planet deals with plogging, i.e. the idea of picking up litter while jogging. The worksheet consists of a few vocab exercises and includes a lot of words used when talking about waste and littering.
Flipped Lesson 45 min
The urban jungle keeps getting bigger
Global IssuesIn this flipped lesson plan about megacities students will learn vocab related to cities, read urban development statistics and discuss city problems.