Free Ticket to English Lesson Plans: Unit 5 — Entertainment
Free downloadable 1st Bac lesson plans for Ticket to English Unit 5 — Entertainment. All 9 lessons: leisure vocabulary, expressing interest, grammar (past continuous vs. simple past), and a film review writing task.
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August 17, 2026
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Unit 5 of Ticket to English covers Entertainment — a naturally engaging topic, paired with a genuinely important tense distinction: the past continuous versus the simple past. Below are all 9 free, ready-to-teach lesson plans covering the full unit.
All nine are free to download, aligned with the 1st Bac Standards-Based Approach.
What’s Included
Lesson 1: Starting Up — Leisure & Free-Time Activities
A warm-up lesson introducing the unit’s theme through students’ own real free-time habits.
Lesson 2: Reading — People’s Pastimes: Shopping, Movies, Football
A reading passage covering three genuinely popular leisure activities.
Lesson 3: Vocabulary — Leisure Places & Entertainment Lexis
The vocabulary bank students need to discuss where and how they spend their free time.
Lesson 4: Listening — Interview with a Famous Actor
Listening practice built around a genuinely engaging interview format.
Lesson 5: Functions — Expressing Interest & Indifference
A practical communication skill, naturally suited to a topic built around personal preferences.
Lesson 6: Grammar — Past Continuous vs. Simple Past
A focused lesson on the genuine distinction between an action in progress and a completed one — a common source of confusion at this level.
Lesson 7: Writing — Film Review
A structured writing task giving students a real, motivating reason to combine opinion and description.
Lesson 8: Learning to Learn — Dealing with Unfamiliar Vocabulary
A genuinely useful study skills lesson, teaching students how to handle new words they encounter while reading.
Lesson 9: Culture & Fun — Anglo-Saxon Sports & Crossword
A closing lesson introducing culturally distinct sports alongside a lighter vocabulary review activity.
A grammar point worth its own focused attention
Unlike some units bundling two grammar points together, Unit 5 gives the past continuous vs. simple past distinction a full lesson on its own — a signal of how often students genuinely confuse the two.
How to Use These in Class
Contrast the two tenses with a single shared scene
A classic setup works well here: “I was watching a film when the electricity went out” — one ongoing action interrupted by one completed action, in the same sentence, makes the distinction concrete rather than abstract.
Let expressing interest lead into the film review
Since Lesson 7’s review asks for a genuine opinion, teaching Lesson 5’s interest/indifference language beforehand gives students natural phrases to open with, rather than starting the writing task cold.
Practice the vocabulary-guessing skill on the unit's own reading
Lesson 8 works best when applied directly to unfamiliar words students actually encountered in Lesson 2’s reading — rather than a separate, unconnected exercise.
Download the Lesson Plans
All nine files are free to download individually.
⬇ Lesson 1: Starting Up — Leisure & Free-Time Activities
⬇ Lesson 2: Reading — People’s Pastimes
⬇ Lesson 3: Vocabulary — Leisure Places & Entertainment Lexis
⬇ Lesson 4: Listening — Interview with a Famous Actor
⬇ Lesson 5: Functions — Expressing Interest & Indifference
⬇ Lesson 6: Grammar — Past Continuous vs. Simple Past
⬇ Lesson 7: Writing — Film Review
⬇ Lesson 8: Learning to Learn — Dealing with Unfamiliar Vocabulary
Looking for lesson plans for the other 9 Ticket to English units? See the full Ticket to English index. Also teaching Common Core? See the Outlook Common Core Library.
Yes — all nine lesson plans for Unit 5 are free to download individually.
The past continuous describes an action in progress at a specific past moment (“I was watching a film”), while the simple past describes a completed action (“the electricity went out”) — the two are often combined in one sentence to show one action interrupting another.
A film review, giving students a structured, motivating reason to combine description and personal opinion.
Yes — they follow the Ticket to English Unit 5 syllabus and the Moroccan Standards-Based Approach for 1st Year Bac.
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