Designed by Jeanie Mao
Lesson plan-Impossible Choices
Aims/Learning Goals
Global Citizenship:
 To understand the situation of refugees around the world
 To (re)estimate his/her most valuable thing in life
Practiced Skills:
 How to give reasons to support his/her choices (Speaking)
 How to make a list of group members’ final choices (Writing)
 (Homework) Visit the Impossible Choices website and Complete a 50+ word blog post
(Writing & ICTs Abilities)
Level
AU2 (CEFR B1) Level Freshmen
Time
1 Class, 50 minutes (and homework)
Materials
 A short video “How would you respond to impossible choices”
 Impossible Choices website
 (Extended Material) A latest news report on refugees, highlighting new words and difficult
grammar patterns
Procedure/Steps
Designed by Jeanie Mao
1. Small Talk/Warm up
(5 Minutes)
2. Writing/Drawing
(10 Minutes)
Start a conversation regarding latest news in Taiwan
Hand out small pieces of colored paper, and ask each student to take 3
with different colors
Ask students to write down 3 things/stuffs/people…they would like to
keep for the rest of their life.
Put students as pairs
3. First Round of Choices Each student needs to persuade his/her partner to drop one thing
(5 Minutes)
Instructor monitors the conversations in class and collects dropped things
4. Video Showing
(10 Minutes)
Show video “How would you respond to impossible choices” to the class
Ask the class questions on these participants in the video
Summarize the video and review the options offered in the video
5. Second Round of
Choices
(5 Minutes)
Students are asked to make an impossible choice, they must drop another
item and give it to the instructor
6. List Making
(10 Minutes)
Students discuss with group members, make a list of their final choices,
and provide reasons behind their choices
7. Homework Guideline
(5 Minutes)
Instructor shows the website for this week’s homework – blog post
8. (Extend Class)
Closely analyze a latest news report on refugees, introduce new works
and review the grammar patterns in the following class