The allure of simple solutions

This Intermediate ESL lesson will help students examine reality from multiple perspectives.

Warm-up

We’ll start with an activity where students are faced with a famous ethical dilemma.

Video

A viewing of “Source: TED-Ed | History vs. Che Guevara” 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 the attractiveness of simple solutions 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.