| LESSON OVERVIEW
Let’s face it. We’re all addicted to our smartphones and other tech gadgets that supposedly make our lives easier. Therefore, this video lesson plan titled What Smartphone Addiction Does to Your Brain focus on that issue. As part of this ESL worksheet, students can discuss their own experience with smartphones, consequences of their usage and use various structures for expressing preference.
VOCABULARY AND VIDEO
To help students express their ideas connected with addiction, there is a word-building task at the beginning of the worksheet. First, students need to come up with the correct forms from such words as addict, obsess, harm and bore. Next, they should watch the video and answer some questions connected with the smartphone addiction. After that, there is a discussion on activities which they do using their phones (ex. 4).
In the Teacher’s Version, there is a graph which you can give your students after ex. 4 (activities connected with using smartphones) so that they can compare their answers with research results from Canada (2013).
GRAMMAR POINT – EXPRESSING PREFERENCE
This lesson plan includes a grammar point on expressing preference. Students have to study a few sentences containing such phrases as “would rather”, “would prefer and “prefer”. Then, they need to complete the grammar structure forms. The next task is a speaking activity. Students work in pairs and discuss what they would choose in some situations and give reasons. During that task, they should use expressing preference structures.
EXTRA READING EXERCISE: WHY ARE SMARTPHONES GOOD FOR US? (PDF-ONLY)
Here we bring some extra tasks focused on honing reading skills. It shows the other side of the argument, i.e. the good sides of smartphones. The worksheet focuses on developing reading skills and extending vocabulary. It includes a text about the benefits of smartphones and an exercise on figuring out the meaning of new vocabulary from context. This activity is structured just as part of the TOEFL iBT Reading section. At the end, we prepared some discussion points to allow students to talk about what they’ve just read.
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EXTRAORDINARY! thank you for these worksheets they are a great way to teach my students different topics, discussion, vocabulary, etc.
Thank you!
Thanks for such great work!
Interesting topic and way to deal with it.
Thank you!
This is really great. Just afraid we may run out of topics to work with. I’d be glad if we are flooded with more than enough materials to work with. You have saved me ,Thanks a million times
Thanks Bryan!
For a more in-depth video for higher level class — totally suggest this Vox video also!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUMa0QkPzns
Nice one! Thanks for sharing. It’s a really interesting video.
That’s a great addition. Thanks!
Thank you very much for sharing that Mariah. Lots of love from Brazil.
Hi! Really amazing! I usually like to give my students the script of the videos. Are there any lessons with the script included?
All the videos based on TED Talks have good quality transcripts available, e.g. https://eslbrains.com/got-a-meeting-take-a-walk/. Very often you can also find CC in YouTube videos but watch out! Some of them are auto-generated and would require you to check and correct them – they’re generally not so bad but never perfect.
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