What is this lesson about?

A speaking lesson exploring guilty pleasures — trashy TV, reality shows, the food you won't admit to loving — and the more interesting question underneath: why do we feel guilty about pleasure at all?

What language will students learn?

Natural, higher-level expressions for talking about guilt, image and indulgence — including idioms like ‘to brush something off’ and ‘caught red-handed’ — are woven into the quotes, scenarios and discussion.

How do students practise?

Learners build fluency through a conversation-first sequence:

• Reacting to quotes about guilt and pleasure

• Making forced choices in a this-or-that warm-up

• Completing a personal self-assessment

• Predicting a partner's guilty-pleasure answers before checking them

• Discussing what they would do in three socially awkward situations

• Ranking guilty pleasures by how judged they feel

• Mingling to find classmates with specific habits and confessions

• Debating two opposing viewpoints on guilt and pleasure

• Discussing taste, class and social image

• Confessing their own guilty pleasure to a partner

  
  

Why is this lesson useful?

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

• Discuss guilt, taste and pleasure with genuine nuance

• Take part in a structured debate and argue a position with reasoning

• Use sophisticated, natural expressions absorbed through context

• Take part in a genuine personal confession and storytelling task

  
  

Who is it for?

B2-C1 adult learners who want a genuinely conversational lesson, built around a fun, modern and slightly provocative question.