Quit smoking like a champ

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – Learn smoking-related vocabulary including “craving,” “nicotine,” and “withdrawal” while discussing bad habits and addiction in this A2 English lesson.
• – Practice making questions from affirmative statements through grammar exercises and mind map activities for adult English lessons.
• – Watch helpful videos about quitting smoking tips and engage in conversations about overcoming bad habits using these English teaching materials.

In this A2 English lesson, the students will learn about the bad habit of smoking and tips to overcome smoking addiction. Students will also learn how to create question forms using affirmative sentences / statements. This lesson will also focus on some common vocabulary related to smoking addiction.

Warm-Up Discussion

In the first part of the lesson, the teacher and student discuss bad habits in a general way and what bad habits the student recognizes in their life and that of their loved ones.

Video: “5 Tips to Quit Smoking”

Before watching the video, the teacher elicits students’ knowledge of and experience with smoking.

The teacher then helps the student get familiar with 10 of the words used in the video (quitting, craving, nicotine, withdrawal, champ, target, urge, triggers, replacement, medicine) by reading the definitions and practicing the pronunciation of each word. 

Next, they watch the video, “5 Tips to Quit Smoking.”

After watching the video, the student will proceed to answer video comprehension questions. 

Grammar: Making questions

Next, the student learns the grammar point, Question Forms and how to use affirmative statements to ask questions. 

Wrap-Up Questions

The student completes a short “Question Form” mind map activity.