Susana Osorio Hernández

TEFL Training

Learning Objective: Learn about addictions

Level: B2 level.

Stage Teacher´s Procedure – Teacher Results

T/S
Objective
Ratio
Warm Catch the Play Brainstorm.
up/Review students’ attention Divide the group into two teams. Name a word, one
and bring energy student from each team has to write on the board 5
to the class. words related to that. The winner will get a point for
10/90
the team.

15 minutes

inform the students

Introduction about what they Today we are going to talk about some of the most
1 minute are going to learn common addictions people have. 80/20

Present the topic. Ask questions such as: what is addiction? what
Presentation causes addiction?
30 minutes Ask the students about the most common addictions 80/20
they know.
Practice The students will ADDICTION SURVEY
45 minutes practice speaking The students will Write five GOOD questions about
and listening skills. addictions in the table. They will have to do it in
pairs. Each student must write the questions on his /
her own paper. When they have finished, they will
have to interview other students and they will write
down their answers. After that the students will make
a mini-presentation to the group on their findings.

Give the students a list of “modern addictions.” They

are going to pick out one of them and talk about it for
about two minutes in front of the class.

Evaluation The teacher will

check their fluency The evalution will be done during the practice.
and correct their 20/80
pronunciation.

Application Practice The students will read the article

vocabulary related ” Addiction may be in our genes”. After a good
to addictions. understanding they must come up with an opinion
10/90
about the article and they will share their opinion
about it in the next lesson.
Write five GOOD questions about addiction in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must
write the questions on his / her own paper.
When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

STUDENT 1 STUDENT 2 STUDENT 3

_____________ _____________ _____________
Q.1.

Q.2.

Q.3.

Q.4.

Q.5.

 Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

Here
ADDICTION MAY BE IN OUR GENES (4TH FEBRUARY 2012)

Scientists have discovered that addictions may be hereditary. A team from Britain’s University of
Cambridge found that siblings of drug addicts share the same brain abnormalities as their drug-using
brothers and sisters. The research team said these abnormal brain structures are linked to poor self-
control and drug dependence. The researchers suggest that addiction is in some ways a “disorder of
the brain”. This may provide important new ways into helping people with problems of self-control
when it comes to addictions. The study sought to find out if drugs changed the “wiring” of the brain
or whether the brains of drug addicts were wired differently from birth.

Lead researcher Dr. Karen Ersche told the BBC: “It has long been known that not everyone who
takes drugs becomes addicted.” She continued: “It shows that drug addiction is not a choice of
lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we need to recognise this. These brothers and sisters who
don't have addiction problems, what they can tell us is how they overcome these problems, how
they manage self-control in their daily life.” Dr. Ersche and her colleagues studied 50 pairs of siblings
— one with a history of drug addiction and one with no experience of taking drugs. She compared
these with 50 healthy people. She concluded: “We need to find out how these non-addicted siblings
were able to resist using drugs.”

Here are some of the most common so-called “modern addictions”

Workaholism (work addiction) Internet addiction

Love addiction Video games addiction
Television addiction Plastic surgery addiction
Exercise addiction Music addiction
Oniomania (shopping addiction) Mobile phone addiction