English teaching lesson plans from Learn Hot English
How to find the perfect partner?
Level: Upper Intermediate (B2)
Audio: Yes
With online dating sites, finding a partner has never been easier. And these days, you can get exactly what you’re looking for: someone with the same hobbies as you, the same work, the same passions… it’s easy. Students will learn about some specialised dating sites, and discuss this fun but engaging topic for a great lesson.
This practical lesson will get your students using lots of useful language and all the essential skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
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Other levels
Although we’ve set this lesson at a certain level, you could easily use it with other students too. For example, for higher-level students, you could make it more difficult by offering less support through the Pre-listening activities, or by getting them to listen to it completely and then answer the comprehension questions. Or, for lower-level students, you could help them with any new words, do more pre-listening or reading activities, or stop the audio more frequently and check their understanding.
Listening
For students with listening difficulties, use our “stop-start” method. This involves playing small sections of the audio file for students to try to capture the meaning of.
Remember, as part of the Learn Hot English method, we recommend three rounds of listening / viewing:
- Listen once without stopping for a general understanding (listening for gist).
- Then, listen again to answer comprehension questions, this time pausing if/when necessary.
- Finally, listen again but this time read the script at the same time.
Speaking
Remind students that any discussion questions are simply a means to get them speaking. Students are free to invent information if necessary, or if they think the question is too “personal”. The questions are simply there to get students speaking. The actual information is secondary.
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