- Levels: A1A2B1
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🕑 30-45 minutes
🎚 A1, A2, B1
🎯 expressing discomforts, giving advice, gerunds vs infinitives
🕑 0-5 minutes
– Print one worksheet for each student or prepare the presentation.
– Print the Teacher’s Insights or keep them at hand as they contain helpful notes for the exercises.
Introduction: Match pictures and sentences
Giving Instructions: Connect discomforts and instructions
Grammar I: Review turning instructions into advice and select gerunds or infinitives
Introduction II: Match four more pictures and sentences
Putting it all together: Give advice for the discomforts using new language and gerunds and infinitives
Teach your students to express basic discomforts, such as “I have a headache” and “I’m cold”.
Detailed Description
This A2-B1 ESL class gives students vocabulary to talk about discomforts and teaches them to give advice. It may be adapted for level A1+.
Students match the discomforts with the pictures. It is a good idea to focus on pronunciation here, especially with expressions such as ‘stomach ache’. They then connect them with instructions. Following this, they learn expressions to give advice, focusing on using the infinitive or gerund.
If you are teaching online, students may like to receive a copy they can print and use before the class.
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