10,000 steps per day

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – explore various aspects of walking and health through different exercise types and healthy lifestyle analysis;
• – practice verb tense usage, word rearrangement, critical reading comprehension, and using common phrases in context;
• – watch a video about whether you really need to take 10,000 steps a day and analyze walking scenarios using provided English phrases.

In this Upper-Intermediate lesson plan, students explore various aspects of walking and health through different exercise types, including verb tense practice, word rearrangement, critical reading, and using common phrases in context. 

Warm-up 

For each pair of healthy lifestyle characteristics, students choose which one is more important to them for maintaining good health.

Video 

Students watch an informative video titled “Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day?” After viewing, they complete a quiz.

Exercises 

Students complete sentences with words related to walking. In the second exercise they choose the correct form of verbs. Finally they rearrange letters to create verbs.

Reading 

Students read a text about the 10,000 steps goal phenomenon and answer questions about the text to test reading comprehension.

Discussion 

Students read a few walking scenarios and describe what they would do using common English phrases provided.