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ESL Lesson Plan: Why We Have Time Zones

Why We Have Time Zones

Lesson Overview

This great ESL intermediate time lesson will help your students master an important grammar point: tagged questions. It has many exercises to engage students!

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This lesson takes on an interesting topic: Time Zones. Students get to learn about very important grammar point-tagged questions. This ESL intermediate time lesson plan contains many fun and thought-provoking exercises to keep your intermediate students engaged!

Lesson Overview

We are positive that your intermediate ESL students will enjoy this lesson plan! Students start with a fun warm-up quiz about time zones to introduce them to the topic. Then, they learn new vocabulary related to time zones. Next, in this ESL intermediate time lesson plan - students complete exercises about a very interesting video by Vox detailing why we should abolish time zones.

Thereafter, learners will learn theory about tagged questions and complete multiple exercises to practise this grammar point. This is followed by an activity related to time collocations. After that, students have to read an article and complete tasks about it. This ESL intermediate time lesson ends with a discussion so that students can practice their free talk. We are certain that your students will find this lesson plan interesting!

Homework

As usual, this ESL intermediate time lesson includes a set of homework exercises. Students get to practice the grammar more with three exercises. Then, students practise their writing skills with questions.

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