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Bad Habits To Break To Improve Your Life

This document provides an upper-intermediate English lesson plan focused on breaking bad habits. The lesson includes a warm-up discussion of common habits, a reading on bad habits to break for self-improvement, and comprehension questions about the reading. The reading identifies five bad habits: making excuses, getting distracted by technology, saying yes to everything, social media comparisons, and getting lost in inner mental noise. The comprehension questions have students label each habit, discuss which relate to their own lives, and consider if any important habits are missing.

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Bad Habits To Break To Improve Your Life

This document provides an upper-intermediate English lesson plan focused on breaking bad habits. The lesson includes a warm-up discussion of common habits, a reading on bad habits to break for self-improvement, and comprehension questions about the reading. The reading identifies five bad habits: making excuses, getting distracted by technology, saying yes to everything, social media comparisons, and getting lost in inner mental noise. The comprehension questions have students label each habit, discuss which relate to their own lives, and consider if any important habits are missing.

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Bad Habits to Break to Improve Your Life

(Upper-Intermediate Lesson Plan)


ESL Level: Upper-Intermediate
Lesson Topic: breaking bad habits
Skill Focus: Reading, Vocabulary, Speaking
Lesson Plan Download: bad-habits-lesson-upper-intermediate26092020.docx
Approximate Class Time: Two hours

Note: This lesson was designed for English teachers. Students, feel free to read
the lesson and leave your answers to the questions in the comment area below.

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE Bad Habits ESL Lesson Plan: Warm-Up

1. What are some things that you do like to do every day?


2. What are some things that you should do every day that you don’t
always?
3. You are about to read an article about bad habits. With a partner, try
to predict the content by writing down a list of common bad habits.
4. What’s the best way to break a bad habit?

Reading: Bad Habits to Break to Improve Our Lives

1. When things don’t turn out as planned, excuses arise. We find convenient


ways to rationalize why we couldn’t or wouldn’t do something. These excuses
waste time and prevent us from moving forward. This can create cycles.
Stubbornly, we procrastinate, believing that tomorrow is more convenient than
today.

2. Interconnectivity distracts us from completing tasks efficiently. The internet is


full of shallow content meant to temporarily grab our attention. After a
distraction, research by professor Gloria Mark has shown it takes 23 minutes
and 15 seconds to completely return to a task. By putting away our
smartphones, we can engage in the kind of deep work needed for productivity.
Furthermore, though people may claim they are great at
multitasking, research shows that 98% of us cannot do it well.

3. We often believe that saying ‘No’ is impolite or unfriendly. As a result, we say


‘Yes’ to everything, often at the expense of our own personal time and
schedule.

4. With the rise of social media, it has become much easier to compare
ourselves to others. What’s worse, we often compare ourselves to
empty projections of someone’s outward appearance that may not even reflect
a lived reality. This can make us insecure and discontent.

5. Our minds are full of trivial commentary, doubts, and criticisms. We let these
inner voices consume our existence. Lost in mental noise, we neglect the
beauty of the present moment.

[Sources: https://medium.com/personal-growth/bad-habits-you-must-break-
immediately-to-build-a-successful-life-in-2018-ca7268ebc236,
https://curtismchale.ca/2016/06/30/shallow-thinking-harms-productivity-
learning/, some original content]

Bad Habits Lesson Plan: Comprehension & Follow-up Questions

1. Each of the five points above does not have a heading. Take a minute to
write down one noun that best summarizes each point from #1 to 5.
2. What ‘cycle’ is the author trying to describe in the fourth sentence of
point #1?
3. In point #4, what does the author mean when he writes that we compare
ourselves to “empty projections of someone’s outward appearance”?
4. Review the list again. In the margin beside each point, write ‘That’s me /
Somewhat me / Not me’ based on how much the bad habit relates to
your life. Afterward, discuss your answers with a partner or classmates.
5. Do you agree with the points of the article? What points do you think are
missing from the list?

1. turn out (phrasal v) A. in a way that harms someone or something else


2. rationalize (v) B. fail to care for properly
3. move forward (phrasal v) C. develop or end in a particular way
4. procrastinate (v) D. justify, account for
5. at the expense of (expression) E. unimportant, of little value
6. projection (n) F. delay or postpone action, put off
7. insecure (adj) G. advance, make progress
8. trivial (adj) H. the presentation or promotion of something in a p
9. neglect (v) I. not confident or assured

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