‘Healthy Friendships’ Lesson Plan

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How some friendships last — and others don’t and the themes of friendship and how to build healthy habits for making and maintaining strong friendships. Students learn vocabulary related to friendship and habits for making and maintaining strong friendships, talk about friendship and how to build healthy habits for making and maintaining strong friendships, discuss quotations about friendship, 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 tips for making and maintaining strong friendships given 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

Objectives:

• To understand the importance of healthy friendships.
• To learn strategies for making, growing, and maintaining friendships.
• To explore psychological concepts like the “liking gap” and “acceptance prophecy.”
• To improve speaking, listening and critical thinking skills through discussions and roleplay.
• To expand vocabulary with key terms from a video and article.
• To apply healthy communication techniques in friendship-related scenarios.

Topic: Friendship and how to build healthy habits for making and maintaining strong friendships

Language: Vocabulary related to friendship and habits for making and maintaining strong friendships

Watch the short video.

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We hope you enjoy this ESL lesson.

Kieran and the Film English Team