ESL/EFL Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)
Lesson Topic: common paradoxes encountered in life
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Listening, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.75 hours
Lesson Plan Download: paradoxes-of-life-intermediate-022023.docx
Lesson Overview:
Lesson Topic: common paradoxes encountered in life
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Listening, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.75 hours
Lesson Plan Download: paradoxes-of-life-intermediate-022023.docx
Lesson Overview:
- After a short warm-up and introduction, a reading passage introduces twelve paradoxes that people encounter in life. Some of the paradoxes contain related quotations. Students are asked to discuss the paradoxes, decide if they are true, and then list some examples.
- Post-reading activities include an activity where students come up with five takeaways from the paradoxes, a discussion of the Prisoner's Dilemma, a roleplay for a job, and a sentence completion task.
- All lessons come with warm-up questions and discussion questions.
INTERMEDIATE (B1) Lesson on the Paradoxes of Life
Warm-up Questions (Pair-work)
- Do you feel like the harder you work, the more you achieve in life?
- What is a paradox? Can you explain the word or give examples?
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Vocabulary Answers: 1-g, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c, 5-f, 6-i, 7-d, 8-e, 9-h
Endnote: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma