Master the difference between do, make, have and take with this English collocations lesson plan built around twelve high-frequency verb-noun expressions, a short diary text and an error-correction story called The Messy Week.
Main objectives of this material
- Develop advanced vocabulary related to news reporting, including news phrasal verbs such as crack down on, step down, break out, rule out and hit back at, together with their formal equivalents resign, erupt and exclude.
- Improve reading and speaking skills by analysing a front page of headlines and the leads of five news stories, decoding headline grammar, and running a press conference between a spokesperson and a journalist.
- Learn and practise register switching between phrasal verbs and Latin-based verbs, using pairs such as step down / resign, rule out / exclude and hit back at / respond forcefully to to write both punchy headlines and formal news reports.
What students are going to cover
In this lesson, students will explore why news headlines rely on phrasal verbs while the first lines of the same articles switch to formal verbs. Working with a front page of five headlines, they match each story to its lead and discover pairs such as step down and resign or break out and erupt. This phrasal verbs in the news English lesson plan also shows how headline grammar works, including the present simple for recent events and to + verb for the future. Students practise formal and informal register by rewriting headlines as reports and back again, then write their own headlines and role-play a press conference. By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to understand news headlines, choose the right register for the text type, and turn a formal statement into a headline.
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💬 Speaking cards to use with this lesson: Everyday Phrasal Verbs