Etiquette & Manners (Upper-Intermediate ESL Lesson Plan)

ESL/EFL Level: Upper-Intermediate
Lesson Topic: etiquette, manners
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.5 hours
Lesson Plan Download: Etiquette-Manners-Upper-Intermediate-01052012.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

9 comments on “Etiquette & Manners (Upper-Intermediate ESL Lesson Plan)

  1. Dee (Posted on 9-21-2012 at 12:31) Reply

    This website is great!!! Full of useful vocabulary words..

  2. kathy (Posted on 10-4-2012 at 16:15) Reply

    thanks for help guys this is really useful

  3. Dong Uk. Kim (Posted on 12-4-2014 at 22:50) Reply

    I think that this topic interesting. Because this topic has fun story

  4. Anonymous (Posted on 12-30-2015 at 09:20) Reply

    great job overall… nice visiting experience

  5. Alison Sattler (Posted on 1-19-2016 at 14:41) Reply

    Thank you for this lesson plan! It has great ideas!

  6. Cavin (Posted on 11-21-2016 at 13:20) Reply

    I am not sure how to implement this as there’s no explanation to the set-up for the questions. Then the multiple choice refers to a news lesson but which one ?? Very confused.

    1. mb Post author (Posted on 11-21-2016 at 15:01) Reply

      Cavin: You can set up or segue into the topic however you’d like. Please disregard the word ‘news’ in the above section (I’ve removed it); typically the lessons here are based on the news, but this one was an original. Everything else should be fairly straightforward. If you need help on how to use our lessons, visit here: https://www.englishcurrent.com/teachers/english-current-lesson-plans/ . Please download the lesson in .doc format above for a better layout.

  7. Hana (Posted on 2-16-2021 at 00:45) Reply

    I love the topic. How about starting with a funny video on french words in english (the french brexit song) ‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPLe9qhpBF8’ and students can watch and write the list of words that come from French. Etiquette is one of them so then the teacher can ask what is ‘etiquette’ and then go on and ask more warm-up questions. I’ll try it in my next lesson.

  8. Zumrat (Posted on 2-19-2021 at 08:32) Reply

    I think that this topic interesting. Because this topic has fun story

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