‘How To Overcome Your Mistakes’ Lesson Plan

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to overcome your mistakes and the themes of mistakes and how to learn from your mistakes. Students learn vocabulary related to mistakes and how to learn from your mistakes, talk about mistakes and how to learn from your mistakes, discuss quotations about mistakes, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, develop critical thinking skills by exploring issues raised in a short video, read an article, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To explore the theme of mistakes and learning from them.
• To practise listening and reading comprehension and vocabulary in the context of failure and success.
• To enhance critical thinking and discussion skills on personal and societal attitudes to mistakes.
• To develop collaborative skills through roleplay and group discussions.
• To increase awareness of resilience and growth mindset concepts.
• To expand vocabulary related to the topic.

Topic: Mistakes and how to learn from your mistakes

Language: Vocabulary related to mistakes and how to learn from your mistakes

Watch the short video.

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We hope you enjoy this ESL lesson.

Kieran and the Film English Team