Middlebury Language Schools (Advanced Lesson)

ESL/EFL Level: Advanced (C1/C2)
Lesson Topics: language learning, immersion
Skill Focus: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.25 hours
Lesson Plan Download: middlebury-language-schools-advanced-032023.docx
Lesson Overview:

  • After warm-up questions, students watch the start (5:53 minutes worth) of a YouTube video introducing Middlebury Language Schools. Note that the narrator speaks fairly quickly and has a BrE accent. After the video, students read a short passage about the school.
  • Post-reading activities include comprehension questions and a pair-work activity in which students use vocabulary from the video to ask each other questions.
  • The lesson is followed by two role-plays related to attending Middlebury.
  • All lessons come with warm-up questions, vocabulary questions, and discussion questions.

An oil panting of a prestigious American college

ADVANCED (C1/C2) ESL Lesson on Middlebury Language Schools

Warm-up Questions (Pair Work)

  1. How long have you been studying English? Do you feel that you are improving?
  2. To learn a language, do you think immersion (learning in an environment where only that language is used) is necessary?
  3. What strategies have you found to be most effective for learning English?
  4. What language-learning resources do you find most helpful?

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Follow-up question answers:

  1. …
  2. …
  3. The catch is that you may forget your own native language.
  4. …
  5. He means that it is a stressful and difficult experience. Because it is a shared experience, it could have value because enduring difficulties with others can bring you closer together.
  6. That ‘certain something’ is a punishing experience that will humble your ego.
  7. He describes it as very diverse. There are professionals, social workers, and people from all sectors of society.
  8. Intensive programs seem to work for lower levels, though they may not be as effective for helping students make similar progress at higher levels.
  9. …

Vocabulary answers: 1-d, 2-g, 3-e, 4-j, 5-b, 6-k, 7-L, 8-h, 9-a, 10-i, 11-f, 12-c

Endnotes

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