Bring your english to life

Abstract

This final term paper presents the development of two didactic units aimed at B1, B1+ and B2 students level according to the CEFR, in an online and private lessons (1-2-1) environment, and for General English adults or young adult classes. The relevance of the Unit topics chosen to be used in this final term paper were a combination of something close to students' real life and current topics in an attempt to assist students to independently, meaningfully and more naturally communicate in English. To better equip learners to be able to fully participate during the lesson, the main focus was selecting vocabulary, listening, speaking and grammar activities I’ve been seeing my students struggle throughout my teaching practice, such as the natural way to use the Dependent Prepositions, the structure of Comparatives, Expressing their Opinion in a more sophisticated way and also working on features of Connected Speech such as intonation and weak forms instead of focusing on isolated sounds. Varying, as much as possible, the activities formats was also fundamental while developing the two Units so that students could be challenged with different task arrangements to suit their individual needs and provide some playful and memorable moments as well. It was also included learning reflections for both students and teachers at the end of each Unit so that they could think about their learning and teaching process throughout the lesson The activities were prepared having not only online students in mind, but also face-to-face students both private or in groups.