ESL Lesson on Fake News - Listening Comprehension and Writing Activity

Fake news anchors an ESL slide lesson that moves from a dictionary definition and picture-description warm-up to a listening task on a linked video, then an essay or argument on whether fake news should be illegal.
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Updated May 14, 2024

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This ESL EFL Lesson Plan on Fake News (PDF Digital Lesson 12 slides + answer key) can be Great to help stimulate English Learning within Newcomers or any English as a Second Language Student. Ideal participants for this Activity are Foreign Languages Students in lower secondary and the first years of upper secondary school (teens). This Product can also be Great for ESL Centres Abroad and ESL Tutors or private teachers.

This ESL EFL TESOL TEFL Lesson Plan on Fake news can be more than great for intermediate-advanced English as a Second or Foreign Language Students.

This Stimulating ESL EFL Lesson Plan on Fake News (12 slides + Answer Keys in the last slide) includes:

  • 1 Introduction to Fake News

  • 1 Warm-Up Picture Description ESL EFL TESOL Activity given of 3 scenes (people influenced by Fake News protesting against vaccines + fake news of "banned pictures of cats on Google" + Deep Fake of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer)

  • 1 Listening comprehension Activity (with answers keys in the last slide) with QR Code-Linked YouTube Video

  • 1 Writing Activity with 2 Essay Prompts (writing an essay on your own personal opinion on information overload and its effects on society by listing 3 examples of fake news that have largely spread their effects and influence + writing if you agree with the following statement: "Fake News should be illegal")

This ESL, EFL, TESOL, TEFL PDF Digital Teaching Resource Lesson Plan on Fake News (12 slides + answer keys in the last slide) can be great for Intermediate-Advanced English as a second or foreign language learners. Its aim is to make students exercise and improve their Listening comprehension and Writing English as a second language Skills.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Answer true/false and short-answer questions about a spoken English video

  • Describe images and discuss examples of fake news in English

  • Write an opinion or argumentative essay supported by examples

Teaching tips

  • Check that the linked video plays on your classroom setup before the lesson, since the listening questions depend on it.

  • The two writing prompts could be assigned by level: the impact essay asks for three real examples, while the argumentative prompt centres on a single statement.

Skills covered

  • Listening comprehension — answering questions about how information has been controlled and how the internet changed news

  • Spoken description — responding to warm-up prompts about fake news images

  • Argumentative writing — taking a position on the statement that fake news should be illegal

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Internet access is needed, because the video and the dictionary definition open through links on the slides.

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