Fake news in focus: linking ideas with Advanced connectors

This B2 ESL lesson teaches advanced connectors for linking ideas — showing contrast, result and addition — through the timely theme of fake news and media literacy, so learners write and speak more cohesively about the news they read.

What students learn

Students build media-literacy vocabulary — fake news, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, media bias, clickbait, credible sources and manipulation — through a reading about real cases, from the 2016 U.S. election to disinformation in Myanmar.

Grammar focus

The lesson covers advanced connectors grouped by function: contrast (although, however, nevertheless, on the other hand), result and consequence (therefore, as a result, consequently) and addition (moreover, furthermore, in addition). Gap-fills and true-or-false logic tasks show how each connector links ideas within and between sentences.

How the lesson works

A warm-up question about believing fake news opens the topic. Then come vocabulary with a headline-matching reading and word-definition matching, a listening task judging whether a report is credible or a tabloid hoax, the grammar block with connector tables and controlled practice, a test, and homework combining connector categorisation with a listening gap-fill. Interactive exercises give instant feedback throughout.