What Reading Does for You

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – improve the fluency with which students discuss B1 level topics;
• – watch a video about the benefits of reading;
• – learn new intermediate vocabulary.

This intermediate lesson plan is focused on exploring the benefits of reading through various interactive activities including vocabulary exercises, discussions, and reading comprehension.

Warm-up:

Students discuss warm-up questions using words provided in a box. This allows them to activate vocabulary related to the topic of the lesson.

Video:

Students watch a video “The importance of reading in a tech-obsessed world” and based on its content, match sentence parts to form full sentences.

Exercises:

In the first exercise, the learners choose the correct phrases to complete a dialogue. In the following exercise, the students look at a number of categories and discuss how reading can help with them.

In the final exercise, the learners complete gaps in a text with the correct collocations while adjusting verb forms where necessary.

Reading:

The students read a short text about the benefits of reading and answer the questions that follow.

Discussion:

Students answer a series of questions using words provided in a box.