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Lesson Plan: Basic Opinions

Published on February 14, 2024 | Updated on July 17, 2025

In this lesson, you will learn about how to give basic opinions about work-related matters.

  • You will learn about positive and negative adjectives.
  • You will also learn about how to make comparisons in English

Let’s get started


Schema: Quizziz Game (20 Mins)

Task1A

Do your best answering the questions from the quiz

  1. Go to WayGround
  2. Insert the code displayed on the Whiteboard

Pre-Task #1: Positive and Negative Adjectives (20 Mins)

Task2A

Classify the adjectives into positive and negative adjectives


Task2B

Write the comparative form for these adjectives

Happy =

Difficult =

Intelligent =

Safe =

Expensive =

Smart =

Hard =

Dangerous =

Big =

Important =

New =

Interesting =


Pre-Task #2: Opinions about Work/Uni Related Matters (30 Mins)

Task3A

Become familiar with some expressions and structure

Before you start making your sentences, check these adverbs of degree and useful expressions

ReallyQuite
PrettyExtremely
TrulyVery
SomewhatKinda
A bitFairly

Examples:

  1. I think Calculus is pretty difficult. (noun)
  2. I think that learning English is quite easy. (gerund)

Task3B

Give two different opinions about stuff related to your major

  1. Write two opinions
  2. One using a “noun” and one using a “gerund”
  3. Share those opinions on Menti

Break (30 Mins)

Task5A

Take some time off and be back on time

I need a break

Main Task: Survey

Task6A

Create a survey and then survey your classmates

Instructions

  1. Make groups of 3
  2. Create a 6-question survey using Google Forms
  3. Questions must be comparisons. “Which Phones are better?” (a) IPhones , (b) Android
  4. Share the survey with your team
  5. When asked, survey your classmates

Manuel Campos

Manuel Campos

I am Jose Manuel, English professor and creator of EnglishPost.org, a blog whose mission is to share lessons for those who want to learn and improve their English