Digital Detox

B2 · Upper-intermediate50 minConversation StartersLesson 3 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: discuss our relationship with screens honestly — hedged opinions, real trade-offs, and a boundary you might actually try.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: You and your screen

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Unplugging in a Connected World

    Read a 338-word text about Unplugging in a Connected World

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Technology and Wellbeing

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Planning a Digital Detox

    Role-play: You are discussing a planned digital detox with a friend who is sceptical. (3 lines)

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Where do you stand?

    6 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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screen timeaddictivenotificationmindfuldisconnectboundary

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