Millionaire’s Last Hunt (Intermediate Lesson Plan)

ESL/EFL Level: B1/B2 (Intermediate)
Lesson Topics: hunting, animal rights
Skill Focus: Reading, Speaking, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.5 hours
Lesson Plan Download: buffalo-kills-hunter-intermediate-082025.docx

  • The lesson begins with warm-up questions about hunting and millionaires.
  • Next, students read a short 165-word passage about an American hunter who was killed hunting buffalo in South Africa. The passage is followed by a short (21-second) TikTok video summarizing the event in order to give students some visual context about the story.
  • The paragraph is followed by comprehension questions.
  • Next, students form discussion questions with the target vocabulary. 
  • The first speaking activity is a roleplay with three roles (one optional). It pits a hunting enthusiast against an animal rights activist. They each must present their arguments for and against big-game hunting tourism in South Africa.
  • To reinforce the lesson's vocabulary, students then create a story using three cartoon images. The images depict an airplane crashing into the African savannah, a passenger being attacked by a lion, and then months later, the same passenger emerging from the forest alive.
  • As the lesson draws to a close, students review the lesson's vocabulary, discuss famous quotations, and then match collocations used in the video.
  • The lesson closes with some final discussion questions and a meme (intending to be humorous) about hunting.

An African buffalo chases a hunter

INTERMEDIATE (B1/B2) Lesson on Hunting

  1. Have you ever gone hunting or fishing? Why or why not?
  2. Are there some animals that you think should not be hunted? If so, which?
  3. Why don’t people like millionaires?

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Comprehension Question Answer Key

  1. ….
  2. $10,000
  3. Because it is very dangerous and has killed many hunters
  4. He believed it was important for animal conservation
  5. Negatively — it focuses on his death and shows him as a hunter of big animals
  6. …

Vocabulary: 1-e, 2-b, 3-g, 4-d, 5-a, 6-c, 7-f, 8-h

Collocations: 1-b, 2-e, 3-d, 4-c, 5-a

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