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ESL Lesson Plans Focusing on Important Issues and Politics

Free English conversation lesson plans focusing on important issues and politics for intermediate and advanced level of English learning in ESL EFL classes as well as business English classes. Each lesson provides an introduction, step by step teaching guidelines and printable student worksheets.
Why do People Do What They Do?
Advanced level lesson focusing on providing explanations for certain human behavior through the use of student generated surveys.
Conversation Lesson Plan - Creating a New Society
Lesson plan focusing on creating a new society used to foster conversation skills for ESL classes.
Points of View - ESL Discussion Lesson for Intermediate to Advanced Level English Learners
Points of View is a intermediate to advanced level discussion lesson that asks students to rate their opinions from one to ten - 1 - strongly agree to 10 - strongly disagre - on a number of controversial issues.
Political Nightmares - Interviewing
An entertaining and challenging lesson which puts students into the position of having to defend poorly phrased statements made by various politicians. Students take either the role of a politician defending what he has said or a journalist trying to catch the politician out. Great stuff!
Political Nightmares
Political Nightmares - A fun conversation lesson for advanced level ESL EFL English lessons getting students to defend and discuss dubious statements made by politicians
Political Nightmares
Political Nightmares - A fun conversation lesson for advanced level ESL EFL English lessons getting students to defend and discuss dubious statements made by politicians.
Violence In The Media Needs To Be Regulated
Advanced level lesson plan for classroom debate concerning whether government should regulate violence in the media: including cue cards
Men and Women - Equal at Last?
Advanced level lesson plan for classroom debate concerning equality between men and women including cue cards
First World Obligation
Advanced level lesson plan for classroom debate including cue cards
Multinationals - Help or Hindrance?
Advanced level lesson plan for classroom debate including cue cards
Press Conference
"Press Conference" is great for small groups and classes of about six people and up. It stresses listening, speaking, and overall conversation.
Shoplifting - Always Wrong or Sometimes Right?
The lesson encourages to students to discuss when / if shoplifting is ever acceptable and includes role cards for group discussions.
Creating a New Society
A classic conversation lesson piece, this lesson focuses on having students discuss which laws they would choose when creating a new society. This lesson is a guaranteed discussion generator!

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