LESSON OVERVIEW

This flipped lesson plan is based on a video about the Blue Zones, i.e. places in the world where people live the longest, and factors that contribute to good health and a long life. This longevity lesson plan will make your students work at home on a video as well as on forming nouns from adjectives. In class, students will have plenty of opportunities to talk, and learn some phrases connected with health, as well as practice their word formation skills.

This is a Flipped Classroom lesson plan. In a nutshell, it means that the first part of the lesson needs to be done by students at home. Learn more about flipped classroom and how we implement it in these lesson plans in our post.

PRE-CLASS ACTIVITIES

First, at home students need to read a short text about Dan Buettner who is an author of such bestsellers as The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People, and answer two questions to check whether they understand the term Blue Zones. Next, they study a short table presenting how we form nouns from adjectives in English. To put it in practice, students have to complete one word formation task. Finally, they watch a video and answer some comprehension questions.

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES

You start your classes with one activity which aim is to verify what students remember from the video they’ve watched at home. The video presented the so-called Power 9, i.e. 9 aspects we need to follow to have a healthy and long life. Students need to look at the list, discuss and give more details about each point. Moreover, they also need to say which of these principles they find most important to follow. Next, students move to a word formation task. They have to change the form of the words in bold to express a similar meaning in the second sentence. After doing that, students discuss the sentences they formed as all of them are connected with the topic of this lesson plan and concern a healthy lifestyle and longevity. The last two tasks deal with various phrases that we can use when talking about our good shape, health and energy. There are such phrases as be up and about, be as fit as a fiddle, walk with a spring in one’s step, etc. Students have to match underlined phrases in six first sentences to underlined words and phrases in six other sentences that have similar meanings. Finally, this longevity lesson plan ends with a short discussion with questions containing phrases from the previous exercise.