Lesson Overview

This lesson teaches students the difference between night owls and early birds with an interesting video and article. Students get to learn about a very important grammar point – comparative conjunctions. 

This ESL intermediate sleep lesson plan contains many fun and thought-provoking exercises to keep your B2 students engaged! And; they’ll be able to have meaningful conversations about sleep while maybe even using an idiom or two they’ve learned!

Students start with a fun warm up activity discussing a popular quote. Then, they learn new and useful vocabulary relating to the topic. Next, in this ESL intermediate sleep lesson plan – students complete activities relating to the video.

Thereafter, learners practice their reading and comprehension skills with an article. This is followed by a grammar explanation and task. After that, students learn idioms and phrases about sleep. This ESL intermediate sleep lesson ends with a discussion so that students can practice everything they have learned in the lesson. Activities: 

1. Warm up. 
2. Key words.
3. Let’s chat. 
4. Video: Listening activity and discussion. 
5. The benefits of waking up early. 
6. Comparative conjunctions. 
7. Idioms.
8. Quotes.
9. Would you rather? 

Homework

As usual, this ESL intermediate sleep lesson includes a set of homework exercises. Students need to complete two writing exercises that help them recap the grammar, vocabulary and idioms that they’ve learned in the lesson. Activities:

1. Idioms practice. 
2. Comparative conjunctions practice.