Cringe-Worthy Moments

Short overview of the lesson:

• Share situations that make you cringe and discuss attitudes towards embarrassment.
• Rate eight awkward situations using the Cringe Meter and agree on the three most cringe-worthy ones.
• Read online confessions and work out the meanings of eight expressions from context.
• Choose the correct expressions to complete different social disasters and compare which would be easiest to recover from.
• Tell a true or invented cringe-worthy story using a sentence starter.
• Choose a side and defend it in a debate about embarrassment, whatever you personally think.
• Play a prediction game and guess what happened next in eight unusual stories.
• Extra practice: complete sentences and rewrite situations using the target expressions.
• Write a 150–180-word story about an embarrassing moment, including one believable invented detail.
• Revise the vocabulary using a Quizlet set.