Summary
This ESL lesson for B2 English students explores Sleep, health, caffeine, alcohol. Using a real video as the basis for discussion, students develop reading and listening comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar skills across a 90-minute class.
The grammar focus is Expressing cause and effect. Key vocabulary includes substances (noun), psychoactive (adjective), half-life (noun) and more, all drawn directly from the source material. The practical English section gives students useful phrases for real-life situations: Your friend is complaining about feeling tired all the time. You want to give them some advice based on what you've learned about sleep..
Activities
- A warm-up discussion to activate prior knowledge and get students thinking about the topic before watching or reading.
- Comprehension exercises based on the video to check understanding of the main ideas and key details.
- A grammar focus on Expressing cause and effect. At a B2 level, it's important to use a variety of structures to explain why something happens (cause) and what happens as a result (effect). Simple words like 'because' and 'so' are good, but we can be more precise.
- Vocabulary expansion with advanced expressions related to Sleep, health, caffeine, alcohol not found in the source material.
- Practical English phrases for Your friend is complaining about feeling tired all the time. You want to give them some advice based on what you've learned about sleep., with exercises to practise using them naturally.
- A speaking task where students role-play a real-world scenario, applying vocabulary and phrases from the lesson.
Vocabulary focus
The vocabulary section introduces B2-level words and phrases related to Sleep, health, caffeine, alcohol. Key terms include substances (noun), psychoactive (adjective), half-life (noun), circulating (verb (gerund)), restorative (adjective). Students practise using these terms in context through exercises drawn from the source material.
Grammar focus
This lesson focuses on Expressing cause and effect. At a B2 level, it's important to use a variety of structures to explain why something happens (cause) and what happens as a result (effect). Simple words like 'because' and 'so' are good, but we can be more precise.
