The disco revolution

In this Advanced ESL lesson plan, students will explore the disco revolution through diverse verb exercises, word rearrangement challenges, and critical analysis activities.

Warm-up: 

For each pair of music-related characteristics, students choose which one is more important to them.

Video:

Students watch an informative video titled “Why disco made pop songs longer.” 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 choose the correct form(s) of the verbs. In the second exercise they use verbs in the correct form to fill the gaps in sentences. Lastly they rearrange letters to create verbs.

Reading:

Students read a text about the disco revolution and answer questions about the text to test reading comprehension.

Discussion:

Students analyze different aspects of the disco revolution and explain how they would approach studying them using common English phrases provided.