| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- discuss unpopular opinions;
- watch a video about a man’s unpopular opinion on communication;
- review the rules for using articles (‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’ or no article) correctly.
In this lesson, students discuss and react to a set of unpopular opinions and watch a video about a man and his unpopular opinion. They review and practise the rules for using articles through example sentences and an authentic text. Students practise the use of articles by exploring real unpopular opinions. They also examine article pronunciation and create and discuss unpopular opinions of their own.
WARM-UP AND VIDEO
This lesson starts with a warm-up in which students read a set of unpopular opinions and say whether they agree with them and why. Afterwards, they watch a video about a man called Kevin and answer questions about his unpopular opinion. Students then discuss the importance of using articles correctly in English and whether their native language has articles.
GRAMMAR PRACTICE
In this part of the lesson, students read example sentences and complete rules for using articles, learning when to use no article, the indefinite article (‘a’/’an’) and the definite article (‘the’). They then read an authentic text and find further examples of these rules, covering points such as meals, place names, superlatives and fixed expressions. Moving on, students complete gaps in real unpopular opinions with the correct article and discuss whether they agree with a few of them. Following that, they listen to statements to notice article stress and pronunciation. Then, students read and add articles to a text about sharing unpopular opinions, discussing the advice it gives. Finally, students create their own unpopular opinions using each type of article at least twice, then share and discuss them with a partner.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This lesson also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students complete sentences with the correct article (‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’ or no article). The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it, cut it up and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
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Really useful lesson for my Ukrainian B2 student who struggles with this! I also could not stop laughing at the video.
Great lesson thanks
The first ‘the’ is followed by a consonant, so it’s pronounced /ði/. The second ‘the’ is followed by a vowel and therefore it is pronounced /ðə/. -> pronunciation task; it should be the other way around
Hi, thanks for spotting that and letting us know! We’ve corrected it. 🙂
Loved this class! Very useful and video is hilarious
Great lesson! Really useful for my Vietnamese students who struggle with articles.
this is just so cool and useful, fantastic work as always Ewa
I didn´t think the choice of this video clip worked for the lesson. In fact, my students and I were really disappointed and somewhat puzzled.
I liked the video but I do agree there was a little bit of a disconnect and I found it helpful to pick out specific sentences from the video to analyze as examples of missing articles to ask students what Kevin should have said. This made it a little more cohesive I think!