How to Win Friends

In this B2 lesson plan, students learn vocabulary for relationships and social skills. They also practice using verbs followed by -ing or to + infinitive.

Warm-Up

Students answer a few questions connected to the topic of the lesson. Next, they guess which facts about Dale Carnegie’s famous book are true and which are false.

Exercises

The students match words with their definitions. Next, the learners complete sentences with the correct form of given expressions. Following that, they are tasked with finding the odd one out in a group of words. In the next exercise, the learners try to guess the ending to a famous quote. Finally, they put a conversation in the correct order.

Grammar
In this section, the students will learn about verbs followed by the -ing form or the to-infinitive. This section has three separate exercises to help reinforce this grammar point.

Reading

Students read a short text and decide which statements are true and which are false.

Discussion

Finally, the lesson wraps up with a few thought-provoking questions.