Who Should Use ESL Lesson Plans on Relationships or Friendships?
Vocabulary that has to do with friendships and relationships can enter your ESL lesson plans no matter which level of English as a second language you are teaching. Words like friend, wife, husband, brother, sister, mother, and father are usually among the first words a new English speaker learns. With these words, you can construct simple lesson plans about relationships and friendships. For instance, you might separate your students into pairs and have them work out a brief, simple statement introducing their new “friend” to the class. For an even more basic lesson, have the students tell the class if they have siblings, what their spouse’s name is, and so on. It is at an intermediate or advanced ESL level that lesson plans having to do with friendships and relationships can really get interesting. Consider asking questions such as: • – What makes a good friend? • • – Can men and women be friends? • • – Should married people have friends of the opposite sex? • • – How important is fr
