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.