Critical Thinking - ESL EFL Teaching Resources
What makes you happy?
ESL EFL Lesson - Pre-intermediate - 1.30 Hours
This critical thinking activity helps
students to consider what makes them happy in their lives. The students
share the information with their classmates and examine their findings
by looking at reasons for happiness and studying the most popular
categories for happiness. Students begin by writing down ten things that
make them happy. The students then work in pairs and share their
information. The students also talk about why those things make them
happy. The students are then put into groups of four. They discuss and
find out the most popular categories for happiness, e.g. health,
education, money, etc. The students then give feedback about their
findings to the class and create a poster about happiness in order to
educate other students about choosing the right things to make them
happy.
What makes you happy.PDFWhen Prayers are Answered
ESL EFL Lesson - Pre-intermediate - 2 Hours
This engaging four-page critical
thinking lesson can be used to teach the topic of reincarnation. The
lesson starts off with a song gap fill exercise. The song is “The one
that got away” by Katy Perry which introduces the topic of
reincarnation. Students then read a short story also covering the topic
and answer true or false and reading comprehension questions based on
the text. Students then create their own ending to the story. After
that, the students use a set of discussion questions to help them use
their critical thinking skills to talk about the topic of reincarnation.
This lesson covers individual, pair and group work, discussions,
critical thinking, speaking, reading, writing and listening activities
as well as a variety of language points. Detailed teacher's notes are
also provided.
When Prayers are Answered.PDF ExclusiveIsland Adventure
ESL EFL Writing and Speaking Activity - Intermediate - 1 Hour
In this creative teaching activity,
students use their critical thinking and problem solving skills to
survive being stranded on a desert island. The students are told that
their boat is sinking and that there is a desert island nearby. In
groups of three, students choose four items to help them survive on the
island. The students write about their choice of items and their reasons
for choosing them. Each group then explains their choices to the class.
After that, the groups find out what challenge they face on the island
by picking a card. Each group picks a card and makes a plan of what they
will do to survive on the island, and how the four items they brought
will help them. The groups then present their plans to the class. The
teacher assesses each group's chances of survival according to their
plan and how risky their ideas are. Each group is awarded a score
between zero and three. After each group has presented, they roll a dice
and the awarded points are combined with the number on the dice. Groups
need to score four or more to survive, and more than six to thrive on
the island.
Island Adventure.PDFLateral Thinking Exercises
ESL EFL Speaking Activity - Intermediate - 45 Minutes
Below is a link to a set of 15 lateral
thinking puzzles. Each puzzle comes with a clue and then the answer.
These puzzles can be used in many ways to improve students' critical
thinking skills. You can hand out the puzzles without the answers and
have the students try to complete them. The students could complete a
'Find Someone Who' activity with the puzzles and answers. You could also
use the puzzles in a quiz game.
Lateral Thinking Exercises.PDFLost at Sea
ESL EFL Writing Activity - Intermediate - 25 Minutes
Here is a link to a thought-provoking
critical thinking exercise in which students are presented with a 'Lost
at Sea' scenario. The students have to rank fifteen undamaged items
still left on their sinking boat in order of importance. They rank the
items from 1 to 15 according to how important they are for their
survival. Once the students have ranked the items, the teacher goes
through the correct ranking with the students. An answer key and
rational sheet are provided.
Lost at Sea.PDFStress
ESL EFL Lesson - Intermediate - 1.30 Hours
This captivating three-page lesson will
help educate your students about the topic of stress. To begin this
critical thinking lesson, students work in pairs and interview each
other about the top ten most stressful things in their lives. The
students then make a group of four and compare their answers. The group
members find the most popular stressful things or situations for their
group. After that, the students complete a class stress survey. Students
find out the ways each person reduces stress and how they relax. Once
the survey is complete, the students re-group and read all their data
and categorize it. Students then make posters showing the results of the
survey. This lesson involves pair and group work as well as a class
mingling activity. Critical thinking, data collection, analyzing and
evaluating skills are also used. Detailed teacher's notes are provided.
Stress.PDF ExclusiveThe Elevator
ESL EFL Speaking Activity - Intermediate - 30 Minutes
This teaching activity is useful for
practicing negotiating, critical thinking, prioritizing and making
preferences. It can also be used to practice giving opinions, agreeing
and disagreeing. In groups of four, students are presented with a
situation that they have to discuss and then negotiate an outcome. The
situation is that there are fourteen people trapped on the 26th floor of
a burning building. There is one elevator working, which holds a
maximum of eight people, and it can only go down once. Each group has to
decide which eight people they will save, and why.
The Elevator.PDF ExclusiveThe Rose
ESL EFL Lesson - Intermediate - 1.30 Hours
This compelling three-page lesson
teaches students about the topic of love. The lesson begins with a short
story. This is followed by some reading comprehension questions. After
that, there is a song gap fill exercise based on the short story. There
are also discussion questions to teach the students to think critically
about the topic. This lesson covers individual, pair and group work,
discussions, critical thinking, speaking, reading, writing and listening
skills as well as a variety of language points such as metaphors and
similes. Detailed teacher's notes are provided.
The Rose.PDFYour Views
ESL EFL Speaking Activity - Intermediate - 30 Minutes
This productive speaking task is useful
for teaching students to use their critical thinking skills. The
students discuss two controversial statements in groups. Students then
give their opinions, agree and disagree. The groups write down the
reasons for their decisions and present their results to the class. This
then leads into a class discussion.
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