This is a straightforward chapter, although it seems a bit of a mix of topics. Bond properties are new for the students, but using bond energies to calculate enthalpies of reactions is not difficult. If they know where to put the lone pairs, and give their pictures a little three-dimensional perspective, then they will not have to memorize much. Shapes which are clear from the drawings include trigonal bipyramid, t-shaped, linear, octahedral, square pyramidal, and square planar. Draw these three or four times with the names of the shapes and the students will have learned them.
Molecular polarity is a tough subject for students.
I think it is because they do not understand vectors or symmetry. Thus, we have to tell them what the highly symmetric shapes are. That rule works often, but not always, as in the square planar case or the linear case with five structural pairs and three lone pairs. As for hybridization, and a new set of four orbitals with appropriate energies and orientations, well Identifying the type of hybridization in molecules is easy for them. Pity the poor student who misses the first day of lecture on molecular orbitals.