Your Brain on Belonging
Grammar: Present Perfect
A Level 3 English lesson exploring psychology.
What's in this lesson
A Level 3 (intermediate) ESL lesson on psychology, practising present perfect. The worksheet has a reading, target vocabulary, a grammar reference with practice and discussion questions.
From the reading: Your Brain on Belonging
Here is something strange. When a scientist scans your brain after social rejection — after being left out of a group, ignored at a party, or unfollowed online — the pain shows up in exactly the same region as physical pain. Not metaphorical pain. Real, measurable, neural pain. Psychologist Naomi Eisenberger at UCLA has already published this finding, and it has never stopped surprising people.
Vocabulary
- reinforce confidence
- sense of self
- social rejection
- stand out from
Grammar: Present Perfect
- ever / never
- Have you ever changed your opinion to fit in? — questions and negatives about life experience
- just / already
- She has just published her results. He has already read the report. — very recently completed
Discussion questions
- Imagine you could choose a new city to live in tomorrow — how would you pick?
- What would you do if your closest friends all had very different values from you?
- If you could design the perfect community to belong to, what would it look like?
Your Brain on Belonging
Grammar: Present Perfect
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Full lesson plan with reading, grammar, vocabulary, and discussion.
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