Lesson Overview

This A2 ESL lesson explores the topic of expressing opinions, helping students share their ideas, agree and disagree with others, give reasons, and ask for opinions using simple, natural English.

Learners practise identifying facts and opinions, learn useful language for giving and asking for opinions, and develop their ability to explain their ideas with clear reasons and examples. They discuss a range of familiar topics, including city life, working from home, improving English, pets, travelling, and everyday preferences.

This lesson is ideal for A2 learners who want to develop their speaking and listening skills while practising useful language for expressing opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, asking questions, and giving reasons.

1. Fact or Opinion?
2. Opinion: Key Language
3. Give Reasons
4. Opinion to Reason
5. Opinion Scale: Improving Your English
6. My Opinion: Danny's City Life
7. Audio Opinion: Working from Home
8. What's Your Opinion?
9. Opinion: Which Is Better?

Homework

Students practise expressing their opinions about a range of controversial statements, giving reasons and examples to support their ideas.

1. Writing: Controversial Statements