Etiquette & Manners (Advanced ESL Lesson Plan)

ESL/EFL Level: Advanced
Lesson Topic: etiquette, manners
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.5 hours
Lesson Plan Download: Etiquette-Manners-Advanced-03052012.doc
Lesson Overview:

  • The reading passage covers ten scenarios related to paying a bill, dress codes, bad dates, tipping, unwanted gifts, sitting on the bus, being seen as ‘part of the team’, odors, white lies, and online privacy.
  • Post-reading activities include an activity that has students program a robot with rules that would enable it to properly interact with people.
  • All lessons come with warm-up questions, comprehension questions, a vocabulary section, and discussion questions.

Let's study the rules of etiquette.

Etiquette ESL Lesson Plan: Warm-up (Pair Work)

1) Are the people of your country well-mannered compared to other nationalities?
2) What customs or social rules does your country have that a foreigner might not know?
3) What examples of bad manners do you often see?
4) Do you have any customer service horror stories?

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Manners ESL Lesson plan copyright Matthew Barton of Englishcurrent.com

2 comments on “Etiquette & Manners (Advanced ESL Lesson Plan)

  1. ibikeys (Posted on 8-26-2014 at 02:08) Reply

    could you pls always give examples? I think your lesson plans are interesting, but the absence of examples sometimes leaves me with noe option but to leave out some lessons. thanks

  2. vitajumna (Posted on 11-18-2014 at 14:29) Reply

    Good evening, thank you very much fot inspiring topics, i have found three of them really helpful with my intermediate students. Your material is somewhat wider in concept, but full of topical expressions:), which i like. thank you once again. Veronika

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