How to...

Here's a website you might get a fun lesson out of, wikihow.com.

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• How to escape from a bear
• How to date a hopelessly romantic person when you are not hopelessly romantic yourself
  
• How to hold a successful garage sale
  
• How to overcome the fear of marriage
  

As with anything you might find on the Internet, ask yourself whether you are not going to break any cultural tabus, etc, there.

Garage (aka car boot) sales are something you might have to explain -- they are totally unheard of in Spain, for example.

What could you do with it?

• Introduce the topic in some way... "I've got this friend who's utterly unromantic, who's dating this girl who is very romantic and he was asking me for some advice (knowing what a romantic person I am... ,-)"
• Get the students to brainstorm a list of ideas
• Pyramid the discussion (move from pairs to fours, from fours to eights, etc)
• Get them to go to the site and read the article
• Etc
  

The "etc" is particularly important, I would suggest. What are your learners going to do with the information they find -- I'd say that's a vital question. Posting their ideas, and commenting on them, on a class blog is one thing they could do with it...

Don't search
Wikihow is one of the things I have on my Google personalised home page. In that way, I don't go looking for things on wikihow -- they come to me.