A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: The Beginner
This A2-level ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video that explores the theme of the beginner. It is designed to help learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing—through guided discussion, roleplay, vocabulary building, and engaging classroom activities.
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This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled The Beginner and the themes of being a beginner and children in care. Students talk about being a beginner, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, predict the end of short film, analyse a short film, write from the perspective of a character in a short film and reflect on the lesson.
Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1)
Learner type: Teens and adults
Time: 90 minutes
Activity: Talking about being a beginner, predicting the content of a short film, watching a short film, answering comprehension questions, predicting the end of short film analysing a short film, writing from the perspective of a character in a short film and reflecting on the lesson
Topic: Being a beginner and children in care
Language: Vocabulary related to being a beginner and children in care
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