ESL Lesson Plans Focusing on Popular Culture

This plan for young learners, also works well in adult classrooms. The lesson focuses on recognizing that stereotypes do contain some truth, but also can not be applied across the board, is central to this lesson. The lesson also helps them improve their descriptive adjective vocabulary while they discuss perceived differences between nations through stereotypes.

Intermediate to Upper intermediate level ESL EFL review grammar lesson Plan using Cinema, Movie and Film

Will the Internet really change the way we live and work? Or is the Internet just a passing fad and simply a new form of communicating? Have your students discuss this hot topic and find out what they think.

Getting students to talk about the differences between the past and present is a great way to get students using a variety of tenses and cementing their understanding of the differences and time relationships between the past simple, present perfect (continuous) and present simple tenses.

This subject is especially useful with younger students who might be hesitant to speak about their own lives. Speaking about films provides an almost endless font of possibilities for conversation.

Getting teenage students to converse in English can be frustrating. This lesson uses a fun, competitive "true or false" game to encourage discussion.

Bring students up to a level of listening comprehension which helps them feel confident with coping with full, normal-speed listening texts, conversation for ESL English classes.

Conversation lesson for intermediate to advanced levels concerning films, movies, cinema, actors and actresses

Conversation Lesson Focusing on Pop Music and Musicians

Using Twitter will help students quickly find the latest information on popular culture that they can then use in class in a variety of ways. This lesson introduces Twitter to help students learn in English in bite-sized practice segments.

Students are sure to get talking when thinking about 2012 and all the predictions related to this important year. This lesson plan approaches the subject in a fun way, while reviewing future forms used for predictions or intent, all the while letting students' imaginations run wild.