Giving longer answers
Overview
In this upper-intermediate lesson, students will focus on expanding their responses to give longer, more interesting answers. They'll learn techniques to enhance their speaking, such as using descriptive language and adding personal opinions or experiences.
If you did the previous lesson on this course and assigned the homework, use the beginning of the class to review it as a group. After that, students will engage in several low-resource ESL classroom activities where they first learn some tricks to help them give more engaging answers before practising these with their classmates during an interview task. We've also included a fun group game that provides an enjoyable way for students to further refine their newly acquired skills.
Lesson Outline
Classroom activities
Use of the board
This is sample board work for the second activity, 'Giving long answers'. See the description for detailed instructions.
Homework review
Students are quizzed about their homework assignment.
Giving long answers
Students learn a couple of tricks that will help them to give longer answers to some basic questions.
Student interview
The students will interview each other using questions from the board.
Classroom games
Stopwatch challenge: Celebrity phone call
A role-playing game where students pretend to be two famous people who are old friends and haven't talked to each other for a long time.
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1100+ Printable ESL flashcards
180+ ESL lesson plans
8 Distinct language levels
Offline access through the TEFLHandbook app
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