This practical ESL lesson teaches intermediate level learners how to express problems, setbacks, recovery, and resilience using real-world phrasal verbs. Students engage with a relatable dialogue, explore collocations, and practise grammar and fluency through structured tasks and personal reflection.

What’s Included?

• Discussion Questions about facing difficulties and setbacks

• Dialogue-Based Reading on workplace challenges

• Phrasal Verb Matching, Sentence Transformations & Tense Gap-Fill

• Collocations Exercise to reinforce natural usage

• Speaking Task for real-life storytelling and resilience building

Why Choose This Lesson?

• Equips learners with the language to talk about tough times

• Helps build emotional fluency and confidence

• Connects language with growth, mindset, and wellbeing Bring emotional intelligence into your ESL classroom with this high-impact, real-world phrasal verb lesson.