| LESSON OVERVIEW
With this lesson plan, students evaluate the validity of arguments using the information from a video about logical fallacies. They also practise conjunctions and do a Cambridge CAE Speaking Part 3 activity.
VOCABULARY & VIDEO
At the beginning of the lesson, students discuss what critical thinking is. They will use the ideas from the discussion to do the CAE Speaking Part 3 activity in the last part of the lesson. Then, students replace seven words in context with their synonyms. The words are related to critical thinking and arguments (e.g. faulty – flawed, refute – counter). Students also share their thoughts about two of the statements which they agree with or relate to personally. Next, students read six arguments and decide what makes them faulty and how they would refute them. After that, they watch the first part of the video and explain what a logical fallacy is. After watching the second part, students discuss the logical fallacies from the video. They also look at the arguments from the beginning of the lesson and decide which logical fallacies they exemplify. Students watch the second part of the video again to check their answers.
CONJUNCTIONS & CAE SPEAKING PART 3
In the activity, students read nine sentences and choose the correct conjunctions (e.g. whereas, since, and yet). Then, they need to rewrite arguments using the words in brackets and make any necessary changes to the statements. After that, students need to evaluate the validity of the arguments they transformed and decide whether they display any logical fallacies. Finally, students do a Cambridge CAE Speaking Part 3 task. They need to talk about the importance of critical thinking in some professions, and then decide which of them least requires the skill of critical thinking. While doing the task, students need to use at least three conjunctions practised in the lesson. The worksheet also contains two more CAE Speaking Part 3 tasks which the teacher might decide to do at the end of the lesson or at the beginning of the next one.
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Such a great lesson!
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Wow!! What an inspiring & thought-provoking lesson!! Thank you!!
Thank you, Irina!
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Great lesson, my student loves it! However, the last 2 slides with CAE Speaking activities are hidden during the presentation. Could you unhide them and make them appear, please? Peter
Thanks for the comment! We purposefully set these slides to skip because these are extra tasks. There are two ways out of this: make your own copy of the e-lesson plan and unclick the skip option OR exit the presentation mode on slide 36, go to slide 37 and start the Present mode again. In such a case, when you press space or click the mouse button, you will get to the other skipped slide before the thank you page appears.
This is phenomenal!
Thanks, Liam!
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👏👏👏👏 A really fun and beneficial lesson.
Thanks! I’m really happy you find it useful 🙂
This lesson is just immaculate!
Thank you, Vadim 🙂
An excellent lesson about critical thinking!!! Well paced and developed and so interesting for our students these days!!! Thank you!
Thank you! I’m glad you like the lesson 🙂
Ewa, your lessons are flawless. I simply loved this one.
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Good lesson, but there is 1 major problem. The only problem is that it’s labeled as “Conjunctions” and is also stated in the lesson, however these are not conjunctions, they are prepositions.
Hi, thanks for your comment! Most of the examples in the sentences in exercises 8 and 9 contain conjunctions (which connect clauses in a sentence rather than words or groups of words) but you’re right – in some of them prepositions are used. So we’ve changed the rubrics in the lesson so as not to confuse students. Thanks for spotting that!