This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at pre intermediate level explores the theme of TV programmes. Students will make a poster and develop speaking skills in the form of a role play.

A hand is holding a TV remote, pointed at a TV in the background

Introduction

In this lesson the students will look at the television viewing habits of young people in the UK and compare them to the habits of young people in their own country.

They will begin by making television posters, then they will do a split reading activity in pairs. The text is about television habits in the UK. They will complete a questionnaire about their own viewing habits and discuss how their habits are different from those of young people in the UK. There is an optional role-playing activity where students have to agree on what to watch on television.

Topic

TV programmes

Level

Pre-Intermediate and above

Time

 60-90 mins

Materials 

Lesson Plan: guide for teacher on procedure including answers to tasks.

Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:

  • Split reading Student A
  • Split reading Student B
  • Questionnaire
  • Role-play cards with instructions

For more information about this topic you can visit these British Council and BBC sites:

Comments

Submitted by Hammad Shah on Thu, 07/03/2025 - 00:50

I found this lesson plan difficult to implement because I don't have the resources to print the materials for class size 30. I need practical suggestion to perform this activity with resource mobilization.

Hi Hammad Shah

Thanks for your comment and feedback.  As part of our current website refresh we are making sure that all of our lesson plans have Powerpoints that can be used in class so that it is not necessary to print out lots of materials, as we completely understand that this is not possible for all teachers. As we have hundreds of resources on the site, this is a project that is taking some time, but we hope to have non-print versions of all our class materials available very soon.

In the meantime, please check out some of our other A2 lesson plans which do not require printing: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary/lesson-plans/pre-intermediate-a2

Thanks again for your feedback

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

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