For my final CELTA teaching practice, I taught an Upper-Intermediate lesson on amazing coincidences and a set of key negative adjectives such as impossible, improbable, incredible, irrelevant, and unsuccessful. The context—unbelievable real-world stories like the “Titanic prediction” and the “Jim Twins” case—captured learners’ curiosity immediately and created a natural bridge into vocabulary exploration and speaking.
The online version of this lesson includes short reading tasks, guided noticing activities, and interactive practice to help learners use these adjectives confidently in conversation. It ends with a speaking task where learners share their own surprising coincidences using the target vocabulary.
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