Etiquette & Manners (Intermediate ESL Lesson Plan)

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

5 comments on “Etiquette & Manners (Intermediate ESL Lesson Plan)

  1. Margaret (Posted on 4-22-2014 at 10:46) Reply

    Interesting topic, thanks.

  2. sansao ernesto guilambo (Posted on 4-12-2015 at 07:00) Reply

    well, i liked the lesson plan, it has all necessary steps. however, i only saw ‘warm’ and little of ‘presentation’. why did you go further with presentation?

  3. Diana (Posted on 5-14-2015 at 11:01) Reply

    Great lesson, thanks

  4. Nancy (Posted on 12-14-2015 at 22:13) Reply

    I’m going to try this with my class of college-age students. Thanks for the online and print mode lesson.

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