Have you ever wondered why women are paid less than men? This ESL lesson helps us understand the never-ending gender pay gap. You will find a topic-related video, vocabulary practice, and discussions, followed an explanation about adjective comparison and new skills exercises.
Introduction
The lesson starts with a discussion about a graph showing parents’ share of household responsibilities.
Reading: Gender pay gap
The student reads a passage explaining the gender pay gap and factors that affect it. Then, they answer reading comprehension questions. New words and phrases are extracted from the text for the student to match them with their meanings (come down to, shrink, gap, deadline, etc.). The student uses the new vocabulary to complete sentences.
Grammar: Adjective comparison
Adjective comparison is explained, including degrees of comparison and the suffixes used to make comparative and superlative forms. The student practices adjective comparison by filling in the gaps using correct adjective forms.
Video: Gender pay gap myths
After watching the video debunking gender pay gap myths, the student completes video comprehension practice.
New vocabulary is extracted from the video for the student to match it with the meanings.
Pick a card
The student picks a card and uses the clues (adjectives) on it to describe the final word to their teacher, in order to practice adjective comparison.
The lesson ends with a discussion about women in the workplace.
More on gender dynamics in the workplace in this lesson plan.
This is great! I'll be trying out this lesson this coming Monday and start implementing your handy support. I'll subscribe once I get my first paycheck!!
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Excellent lesson! I used it in one of my private classes today with a student and we had a lot of interesting conversations. I feel like it might be better for an upper-intermediate student. Thank you!
Thank you, Leanne! :)
You might be right about the level if we consider vocabulary section. It's somewhere in between intermediate and upper-intermediate. We were reluctant to mark it B2 because it teaches adjective comparison, which isn't really a good fit for an upper-intermediate student. And since we don't have B1+ category, we categorized it as B1.
Hope you understand. :)
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Haha. Good one :)