Pedal Pals unite!

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – Build bike and transportation vocabulary including collocations like “change lanes” and “sidewalk” through video comprehension activities in this intermediate ESL lesson.
• – Master “don’t mind” vs “doesn’t matter” through grammar exercises and sentence completion practice for adult English lessons.
• – Develop speaking and discussion skills by comparing transportation methods, learning agreement/disagreement phrases, and participating in conversation class lesson plans about cycling initiatives in these English teaching materials.

In this Intermediate lesson plan, students will talk about the benefits and drawbacks of the pedal pals initiative,  learn phrases to agree and disagree with the interlocutor, find out collocations connected with bike driving and parts of the road (sidewalk, to change the lane, etc.) as well as find the difference between don’t mind and doesn’t matter.

Warm-up 

In the warm-up part, the student compares two means of transportation – a bus and a bicycle.

Video: Bike bus

The student watches a video about a teacher starting a ‘bike bus’ initiative. Then, they complete the video comprehension activities. They also match the words from the video with their meanings (go viral, sustainability, climate change, etc.).

Grammar: don’t mind vs. doesn’t matter

The student learns the difference between the phrases don’t/doesn’t mind and doesn’t matter. They practice using them by completing the sentences. 

The lesson ends with a review of vocabulary and grammar.  

For more content related to bicycles, we encourage you to try this plan out.