Mistakes - EFL Lesson (B2/C1 level) - Teacher Notes and Resources

In this download, you will receive all of the resources for the Englishin3d lesson MISTAKES (B2/C1 level). These include four PDFs:

• Worksheet 2B (vocabulary work and an interactive writing task)
• Worksheet 4B (a 'fix the mistakes' exercise)
• Worksheet 4C (a reading/ matching task)
• Teacher notes for the whole lesson, with answer keys and ideas for additional activities.

The main lesson pages are freely available online, starting at https://englishin3d.net/2025/04/24/mistakes/.

Level: Suitable for B2 or C1 learners.

Length: 1.5 to 2 hours.

Aims: To enable learners to develop strategies and vocabulary for talking about and handling everyday mistakes, and to introduce learners to the distinction between a mistake and an error in language learning.

Target Skills and Language: Vocabulary relating to mistakes, vocabulary for handling a mistake (e.g. own up, cover it up, shift the blame etc.), telling personal anecdotes, group brainstorming, developing strategies for handling language mistakes, and matching definitions and examples of errors (e.g. spoonerisms and eggcorns).

A note on activity 4C: The matching activity involves pairing up definitions of named categories of language mistakes with examples of language in those categories. The five categories in this exercise are spoonerisms, eggcorns, malapropisms, Bushisms, and the internet phenomenon of DoggoLingo. Learners do not need any prior knowledge of the five categories to do the exercise. The layout of this sheet allows it to be used as a standard worksheet or cut up into smaller cards.

Suitability: Suitable for adults or teens, online or offline. The material would particularly appeal to creative learners who enjoy interacting and storytelling.