How to live longer

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – focus on practicing vocabulary around healthy lifestyle choices and factors influencing life expectancy;
• – develop language skills through categorization activities, gap-fill exercises, reading comprehension, and discussion abilities;
• – watch a video about how to live longer according to science and analyze chart data related to prolonging life expectancy.

This Upper-Intermediate ESL lesson focuses on practicing vocabulary around the topic of healthy lifestyle choices.

Warm-up

We’ll start with an activity where students categorize phrases influencing the length of life into the correct group.

Video

A viewing of “How to live longer, according to science” will serve as a conversation starter. Post-viewing, we’ll explore the video’s key takeaways through a series of questions.

Exercises

Students will engage in a fun activity organizing the following phrases into the correct groups. In the second exercise the students will fill in the gaps in the text with words given in a box.

Reading

A reading exercise involves a short text about prolonging life expectancy and answering a series of questions to check for reading comprehension.

Discussion

The lesson concludes with an exercise where students discuss a chart related to the topic of the lesson.