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Role Models: Characteristics We Admire

ESL Lesson Plan

Objectives:  

  1. Learn about and discuss characteristics that make a person an admirable role model.
  2. Use vocabulary to discuss a private or public role model.
  3. Prepare to write an essay about a role model.

Vocabulary: admire, characteristic, role model, aspire, resolve, achievement, pursue, mentor, confront, adversity, resolve, embody, inclined, version


Role Models – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

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