Living for the weekend

In this Upper-Intermediate lesson plan students will analyze and discuss how personal time investment choices impact overall life satisfaction.

Warm-up
The session kicks off with a choice activity where students relate to though-provoking quotes.

Video
Participants will watch a video named “This Is How Terribly Short Your Life Is (If You Hate Your Job & Live For The Weekends.)” Post-viewing, students pick which topics were mentioned in the video.

Exercises
In this part of the lesson, students will reveal the cards and look at the pictures and ask themselves whether this is a life they would like. In the second exercise, they group factors that impact life satisfaction into the correct categories.

Reading
Students will read a piece discussing the factors that impact life satisfaction, followed by a Q&A session.

Discussion
To wrap up, students will discuss how choices impact people’s lives using words from a word cloud.