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ESL Lesson Plan: Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome

Lesson Overview

Students will explore the ‘Imposter Syndrome’ in this video based lesson. Through this engaging topic students will complete various exercises which will enable them to progress.  

We recommended delivering this class to advanced learners, and although we believe it will work well with any students, it will particularly work well with people who…

Students will explore the ‘Imposter Syndrome’ in this video based lesson. Through this engaging topic students will complete various exercises which will enable them to progress.  

We recommended delivering this class to advanced learners, and although we believe it will work well with any students, it will particularly work well with people who have an interest in psychological studies or human behaviour. 

There are a whole host of engaging exercises but our favourite is ‘praising and criticising’ as it challenges students to use the language learned in the lesson in a relevant, interesting manner. We are sure you are going to love this lesson! Activities:

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up.
  2. Video vocabulary. 
  3. Discussion questions. 
  4. Article
  5. Praising and criticism. 
  6. Debate. 

Homework

The theme from the lesson continues in this detailed homework assignment. Students are tasked with reading an interesting article that is sure to have them hooked! Then, through various exercises and a creative writing task, students are challenged to apply what they’ve learned into a short text. Activities: 

  1. Article. 
  2. Article: Vocabulary task. 
  3. Article: Writing task. 

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