LESSON OVERVIEW

This ESL graffiti lesson plan is based on a video which presents the Beyond the Streets exhibition which featured over 100 graffiti artists, and touches upon the history of graffiti and street art. The worksheet includes some vocabulary tasks as well as two listening comprehension activities. Students will also have the possibility of expressing their opinion about this form of art.

VOCABULARY & DISCUSSION

Students start this graffiti lesson plan with a general warm-up discussion about art which includes some reference to street art as well. They have to answer questions and it’s your choice whether it should be an open discussion, a pair work or a group work. Next, they move to a word formation task. They get a few sentences and need to complete them with correct forms of words given in brackets. It includes such words as a curator, an exhibition, soften, etc., and most of them appear in the video they will watch later.

VIDEO – VOCABULARY AND COMPREHENSION

Before watching the video, students need to acquire some vocabulary that may facilitate listening to and understanding speakers from the video. They get four words and phrases in context which they need to match with correct meanings. Then, they move to the first listening comprehension task. In this activity they have to watch the video and answer a few comprehension questions. In the second task, students watch the video again and fill in the gaps in the sentences taken from the video. They need to complete them with one word each.

DISCUSSION

This graffiti lesson plan ends with a discussion. This time students get a list of statement about graffiti and street art and they need to tell whether they agree or disagree with them. Monitor your students and make them use various structures to express their opinions. You can even use our standalone extra worksheet for expressing opinions if you find a need to revise with your students different vocabulary and structures for giving opinions.

This extra worksheet supplements our lesson plan on graffiti and includes various words and phrases that more advanced students might use when talking about their preferences. They will of course practise this new language by expressing their opinion on a few works of art we thought people might either love or hate. Discover Love it or hate it worksheet yourself.