This lesson plan combines English Language Arts, ESL, Back-to-School activities, friendship, Education, debates, videos, conversations, vocabulary, speaking, listening, fun facts, projects, and research in one lesson.

It's great for back-to-school and getting-to-know-you-themed classes, especially for older teenagers who start a new semester and adults.

This lesson plan can be used for exam preparations lessons, such as FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOIEC, etc

What is it?

• a no-prep lesson plan based on a video by SciShow Psych - How Your Friends Can Affect Your Opinions

• real-life content

• ESL levels: B2/C1 - teenagers and adults

• Speaking, Listening, and Vocabulary

• PDF and PowerPoint

What's Included?

• a fully designed lesson for at least 60 minutes that requires no preparation - 3 pages full of various activities

• 2 versions of the lesson plan - one for your students and one for you (with answers!)

• a fully animated PowerPoint presentation (same content) with answers provided - only the key is editable!

• in both A4 and US letter formats

Activities

• Warm-up

• Share

• talk about a friend

• Fun Facts

• about friendship

• Vocabulary

• before you watch

• Watch the video

• which topics are mentioned?

• fill in the gaps

• Follow-up

• discussion

• Vocabulary

• fill in the gaps

• Vocabulary+idioms

• Project

Aims

• to improve communication by discussing various topics related to friendship, opinions, influence, and psychology

• to improve active listening skills

• to get used to different accents in English

• to learn new vocabulary

• to discover new trends and ideas from around the world