Lesson Overview

This A2 ESL lesson explores the topic “What Are Your Fears?”, helping students learn useful vocabulary and phrases for describing fears, emotions, and personal experiences.

Learners discuss common fears, rank different situations based on how scary they are, and practise using key adjectives such as calm, nervous, worried, stressed, scared, frightened, and terrified. They develop their ability to talk about their feelings, explain reasons, and describe how they respond to fear.

Through a variety of engaging activities, students build confidence discussing personal fears, sharing experiences, and expressing opinions about overcoming challenges.

This lesson is ideal for A2 learners who are developing fluency in everyday topics such as emotions, personal experiences, feelings, and social conversations.

1. Warm Up: Fears 
2. Fears: How Scared Are You?
3. Fear: Adjectives. 
4. Jack and Emily: Fears. 
5. Reading and Comprehension,. 
6. Video: Fears
7. Fears: True or False? 
8. Game: Picture Round.

Homework

There is an excellent homework task to supplement this awesome A2 ESL lesson plan on “What Are Your Fears”. Students are challenged to write detailed answers to topic-based questions. Activity layout:

1. Writing practice. 
2. New words recap and practice.