Free B1 (Intermediate) ESL lesson plan — 45 minutes of speaking activities, conversation questions and Past Continuous grammar practice for online English classes. Student can describe past ongoing activities and discuss technological changes in their workplace using Past Continuous.
B1⏱ 45 min
What You Were Doing When Technology Changed Your Industry
🎯 Goal: Student can describe past ongoing activities and discuss technological changes in their workplace using Past Continuous
📐 Past Continuous
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#technology#workplace change#career development
📋 Prep view— read through and plan below. Teaching happens in
🎲 Speaking Activity 1
🏆7 minutes
Ranking Activity
Put these in order and tell me why. Explain your first and last choice.
🗣️ “For me, the most important is...”
Rank these from most to least helpful for a modern company:
🎲 Speaking Activity 2
🔎7 minutes
Find the Difference
Look at picture A and picture B. Describe what you see and find the five differences with me.
🗣️ “In picture A ... but in picture B ...”
A
B
🕵️ Hunt first — 5 differences, no list. No pointing — describe. Each difference needs a full sentence with a comparative or "while / whereas".
🔎 Differences found
0 / 5
🏁 FINAL CHALLENGE
Say which picture would come first in a story and why, then name one thing that is exactly the SAME in both.
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