Collocations: Relationships & Social Life

What is this lesson about? This relationships collocations ESL lesson plan helps B1–B2 learners build practical language for healthy relationships and social interactions. Students practise collocations such as build trust, set boundaries, resolve conflicts, and spend quality time through matching, gap-fills, transformations, and speaking activities.

What language will students learn? Learners focus on eight essential collocations:

• Maintain friendships

• Form connections

• Resolve conflicts

• Show empathy

• Strengthen a bond

• Set boundaries

• Spend quality time

• Build trust
  

How do students practise? The lesson develops both fluency and social awareness through:

• Warm-up discussion questions on friendships and social life.

• Definition and collocation matching to clarify meaning.

• Sentence gap-fills and transformations for contextual practice.

• Tense challenge to reinforce grammar in context.

• Speaking practice where learners reflect on their own relationships and social habits.
  

Why is this lesson useful? By the end of the lesson, learners can:

• Use natural collocations to talk about relationships and social life.

• Build confidence in expressing empathy, boundaries, and connection.

• Strengthen grammar, vocabulary, and fluency together.

• Apply English to meaningful, real-world interactions.
  

Who is it for? This lesson is designed for intermediate adult learners (B1–B2). It’s especially suited for wellbeing-focused ESL lessons that encourage communication, empathy, and social fluency in both online and in-person settings.