Using Websites in ELT

Topic: Health and the body

Level: Intermediate students 

Age group: 16-17 years old 

Duration: 80 minutes

Objectives: Describing healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and giving advice by using vocabulary on habits, food, illnesses and parts of the body.

LESSON PLAN #1

Warmer (10 min)

The teacher will introduce the topic by carrying out a brainstorming session about healthy and unhealthy food. Students will talk about their favorite food and they will also have to mention healthy and unhealthy snacks. The teacher will divide the board into “healthy and unhealthy” and students will have to classify the food items for the teacher to write them down on the appropriate side of the board. 

Web (60 minutes)

Students will read Snack culture and 5 Ways Teens Can Get More Fruits and Vegetables Into Their Diets. The teacher will tell students that they can look up words they do not know in Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries. (30 minutes)

             

                 

                

After reading the articles, students will have to work in groups of 4 to create a short leaflet to hand out in British secondary schools using PowerPoint. They will have to explain to teenagers why eating chocolate and crisps can be bad for their health and they will also have to give advice on healthier snacks and how to incorporate them into their diets. (30 minutes)

What next (10 minutes)

To wrap up this lesson, the teacher will ask students to reflect on their diets and think of what they should or shouldn’t change to have a healthier diet. Then, they will have to write it down in their folders. 

LESSON PLAN #2

Warmer (10 min) 

The teacher will introduce the topic by playing Charades. The teacher will act out different symptoms for students to guess the illnesses. Some advanced students will be able to say the terms in English, but everyone will be allowed to say them in Spanish.  

Web (60 minutes) 

Students will read Common Illnesses in Teenagers. The teacher will tell students that they can look up words they do not know in Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries. (20 minutes)

After reading the article, students will answer the quiz in Agenda Web. (10 minutes) 

After answering the quiz in Agenda Web, students will work in pairs to choose three different illnesses and go over the information on the websites in order to complete a mind map for each using Paint. (30 minutes)

What next (10 minutes)

To wrap up this lesson, students will play Taboo. The teacher will prepare special cards. Each one will have written an illness and a list of a few words. Students will have to come to the front of the classroom, pick a card and describe the illness without saying the words in the card.