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This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Smart city: making cities more life enhancing and the theme of smart cities. Students learn vocabulary related to smart cities, urban planning and technology, talk about smart cities, discuss quotations about smart cities, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, read an article, answer comprehension questions, develop critical thinking skills by exploring issues raised in a short video and article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

 

Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 90 minutes

Objectives:

  • To introduce students to the concept of smart cities.
  • To develop students’ vocabulary on urban planning and technology.
  • To enhance students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
  • To encourage discussion and critical thinking about smart cities.
  • To provide practice in roleplay and collaborative communication.
  • To assign meaningful homework that reinforces learning.

Topic: Smart cities

Language: Vocabulary related to smart cities, urban planning and technology

 

Watch the short video.