Lesson Overview 

This ESL Comparisons: Shopping lesson is perfect for your B1 intermediate students! The lesson is video and article based and has many different exercises. Students learn about comparisons and practice them with numerous, fun activities!

Students start by looking at different items and saying if they’d prefer to buy them online or in store. Then, they learn about the grammar related to comparisons and practice using them with three engaging exercises. Later, they use the video to continue their learning, Students learn new video vocabulary and complete a listening exercise. Then, they need to use their newly acquired skills to compare online and traditional shopping.

After the video, students read a short article that explains the benefits of online shopping. Thereafter, they need to complete numerous exercises about the article. The lesson ends with a fun discussion about shopping. 

Activities:

1. Warm up. 
2. Grammar: Comparatives. 
3. Video: New Words. 
4. Video: Listening. 
5. Reading: Reasons to shop online. 
6. Comparatives. 
7. Shopping expressions. 
8. Debate. 
9. Discussion questions. 

Homework

In this ESL Comparisons: Shopping lesson plan, students get the chance to practice their grammar in the homework task with two engaging exercises. Then, they need to learn about some shopping sayings and practice their writing with questions.

Activities:

1. Grammar: Comparatives. 
2. Writing task