What are you good at?

Emma Pathare

Level - Low -Intermediate and above

Everyone learns in different ways - knowing this, and knowing how they learn, helps students to be more confident and find ways to improve their English. It may also help them to learn more effectively in other areas of their lives.

This lesson introduces students to Dr Howard Gardner's theory of 'Multiple Intelligences' (MI) and the idea that all learners are different. The students think about different types of intelligence and then do a quiz to find out what intelligences they are strong in.

At the end of the lesson, students think about how to use the ideas from the lesson to help themselves learn English. Some follow-up tasks are suggested.

The lesson plan itself uses the MI theory by giving your students the opportunity to take part in a variety of activities which appeal to the different intelligences.

Plan components

Lesson Plan: - guide for teacher on procedure including worksheet tasks answers to tasks and example text.

Download lesson plan >> 170 k

Worksheets: - exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:

  • Problem solving activity
  • Discussion tasks
  • Matching activities

Download worksheets >> 180 k

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