Hobbies and Anxiety - Infographic Lessons

A ready-to-use ESL lesson for A2+ learners

Help your students build useful language, develop speaking confidence, and explore a highly relatable topic with this engaging lesson on anxiety, stress, hobbies, and relaxation.

Designed for A2+ learners, Hobbies and Anxiety combines vocabulary work, infographic-based reading, pair discussion, role-play, reflection, and optional extension activities to create a communicative lesson that encourages students to share ideas and express personal opinions.

What students will do

During the lesson, students will:

• build vocabulary connected with anxiety and stress;
• discuss situations and activities linked to feeling anxious or relaxed;
• read and respond to an infographic;
• choose and justify activities they think can reduce anxiety;
• practise asking for and giving advice;
• discuss whether modern life is more stressful than it was in the past;
• reflect on strategies they could use to manage stress.

The lesson also creates plenty of opportunities for meaningful pair and group interaction, while giving teachers space to respond to emergent language and support learners as they develop and refine their ideas.

What’s included

The lesson includes:

• a clear teacher lesson plan;
• vocabulary and discussion tasks;
• an infographic-based reading activity;
• pair and small-group speaking tasks;
• a role-play focused on asking for and giving advice;
• a wider discussion task on stress in modern life;
• a reflection stage;
• an optional stress-reduction planning activity;
• a homework task;
• accompanying presentation materials.

Lesson at a glance

Level: A2+

Topic: Stress, anxiety, hobbies and relaxation

Language focus: Vocabulary related to hobbies and anxiety

Skills: Reading, speaking, discussion and research

Time: Approximately 60–90 minutes

Why use this lesson?

Anxiety and stress are topics many learners can relate to, making them a strong starting point for authentic classroom communication.

Rather than simply teaching vocabulary in isolation, this lesson gives students repeated opportunities to use new language to talk about their own ideas, compare opinions, offer advice and respond to others.

The infographic provides a clear reading focus, while the follow-up activities move naturally from comprehension into discussion and personalised speaking practice.

Ideal for teachers who want to

• get students talking about a meaningful, accessible topic;
• combine reading and speaking in one coherent lesson;
• introduce useful language for asking for and giving advice;
• encourage more personalised classroom discussion;
• use visual material to support lower-intermediate learners;
• create opportunities for both controlled and freer speaking practice.

A flexible lesson you can adapt to your class

You can teach the lesson as a complete 60–90 minute sequence or select individual activities to suit your timetable and learners.

The optional extension and homework tasks also make it easy to continue the topic beyond the main lesson or use it as part of a wider unit on wellbeing, lifestyle or personal development.

Bring a relevant, communicative topic into your classroom

Give your learners the language and confidence to talk about stress, relaxation and the activities that help people feel better — while developing their reading, speaking and discussion skills along the way.