Healthy Lifestyle
This healthy lifestyle ESL lesson explores nutrition, sleep, exercise, stress and burnout. Students classify habits, identify signs of tiredness and use should or shouldn't to offer practical wellbeing advice. They write a personal wellness plan and roleplay a doctor helping a patient manage stress and low energy.
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Lesson format
2 × 45 minutes
Level
Intermediate
Age group
Ages 12–14
Main focus
Speaking first
What students will learn
Lesson flow
Students sort foods and habits as healthy or unhealthy, watch a Burnout video discussing tiredness, and drill 'You should sleep 8 hours. You shouldn't eat too much sugar.' The second lesson identifies stress signals through mime, discusses what helps them relax, writes 'My Healthy Plan' covering food, sleep, relaxation and exercise, and roleplays a doctor's-advice scene about managing tiredness and stress.
Target language
- • Should / shouldn't for advice
- • 'What do you do to stay healthy?'
- • 'To relax, I...'
- • Health and well-being vocabulary
Key vocabulary
- diet
- exercise
- stress
- sleep
- mental health
- nutrition
- vitamins
- habits
- balance
- wellbeing
Speaking questions students answer
- • What do you do to stay healthy?
- • How do you relax?
- • Do you sleep 8+ hours?
- • Do you eat vegetables daily?
- • What makes you feel stressed?
Recommended teaching contexts
Why this lesson works
The lesson follows a clear progression: Sort foods and habits in a Health or Junk? warm-up, give advice using should/shouldn't, write a wellness plan and roleplay a doctor's-advice scene. Teachers can open the materials and start immediately, while students move from supported vocabulary practice to purposeful spoken English.