
In this Advanced ESL lesson plan, students learn about the complex nature of first impressions through various exercises including vocabulary work, scenario analysis, and sentence matching.
Warm-up:
From a list of traits students choose top three things that influence first impressions.
Video:
Students watch an informative video titled “Should you trust your first impression?” After viewing, they complete a matching exercise connecting sentence beginnings with appropriate endings based on the video content.
Exercises:
Language skills are reinforced through various activities. Students complete phrases with given verbs. In the second exercise, they fill gaps in sentences with given adjectives.
Reading:
Students read a text about when to trust first impressions and answer questions about the text to test reading comprehension.
Discussion:
Students read three scenarios and discuss whether trusting first impressions would be beneficial or potentially misleading in each of them.

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