Learn to talk about life experiences, moving abroad and homesickness with this A2 present perfect English lesson plan built around the Easy English street-interview video Have you ever lived abroad?, recorded with real people in Toronto.
Main objectives of this material
- Develop practical vocabulary related to offices, homes and directions, including terms such as charger, socket, reception, conference room, corridor, go past and opposite.
- Strengthen reading, speaking and writing skills by analysing a short story about a new employee’s first day, correcting team chat messages, completing a recipe and describing a home office from a floor plan.
- Learn and practise English articles using a/an for new things, the for things the listener already knows or things that are the only one, and no article for general ideas, meals and languages, guided by the decision question Does the listener know which one?
What students are going to cover
In this lesson, students will discover why articles in English are so hard for speakers of languages without them, and replace long lists of exceptions with one decision question: Does the listener know which one? They will notice a, the and the empty article in a story about a new job, sort each example into six simple rules, and follow a three-step articles decision chart. Students then apply the rules in three real contexts: a recipe, everyday chat messages and a description of a room, before giving directions and describing favourite places in role plays. By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to choose between a, an, the and no article, explain their choice, and describe rooms and places accurately in spoken and written English.
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