Lesson Topics: travel, gender roles
Skill Focus: Reading, Speaking, Vocabulary, Articles
Approximate Class Time: 1.75 hours
Lesson Plan Download: passport-bros-intermediate-lesson-052026.docx
Lesson Overview:
- Note: The lesson's video contains some informal language. Please preview it.
- Students first warm up with questions about dating and cross-cultural relationships.
- The lesson has a 177-word reading passage as an input. The passage introduces passport bros, Western men who travel to meet women, and then explains some of the reasons these bros go abroad. It also contains some criticisms.
- After reading the passage, students answer comprehension questions.
- Students then match 10 vocabulary items from phrases in the video to definitions. This is followed by a sentence transformation exercise which requires students ask questions to each other using some of the new words.
- After a debate on the ethics of being a passport bro, students review five actions and decide whether to classify them as entitled or healthy.
- The lesson has one roleplay, between a young woman in a developing country and her father on the topic of dating a passport bro.
- As a grammar point, students review the use of the definite article before country names.
- Afterward, students review vocabulary and the lesson's collocations.
- Finally, the lesson ends with a few final discussion questions.
INTERMEDIATE (B2/C1) Lesson on Passport Bros
Warm-up Questions
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of dating men or women from your culture?
- Do you know anyone who met their partner abroad? In general, do cross-cultural marriages work?
- You are going to watch a video about men who travel overseas to meet women. What do you think are the top five countries these men travel to? Make a list. (Answers in passage.)
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Comprehension Question Answer Key:
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- Two reasons: the rise of remote work allows men to earn a Western salary while living cheaply abroad; dissatisfaction with Western dating culture — feeling that Western women are too demanding and difficult to please.
- Any one of: passport bros take advantage of women in poorer countries who feel financial pressure to date foreign men; they are dismissed as "Losers Back Home" who were unsuccessful at home.
- "Loser Back Home" — it suggests that passport bros are men who failed to find partners or success in their own country and are using their relative wealth abroad instead.
- Because they live in a poorer country and a foreign man with a Western income can offer financial security that local men may not be able to provide.
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Vocabulary answer key: 1-e, 2-g, 3-j, 4-c, 5-h, 6-d, 7-a, 8-f, 9-i, 10-b
a-weaponize, b-entitled, c-gratitude, d-get laid, e-accusations, f-toxic, g-on the agenda, h-formula, i-have sth down, j-initiate, k-incels
Collocations: 1-f, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c, 5-h, 6-e, 7-b, 8-g
Definite Article Exercises:
- the Philippines, ✗ Thailand, ✗ Colombia, the Dominican Republic, ✗ Brazil
- ✗ Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates
- the United States, ✗ South Korea, the Netherlands
[1] Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_bros
[2] According to this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5ZrggpM2aak
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