B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: The Health Benefits of Dreaming

📝 Lesson Summary
This B1-level ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video that explores the theme of  the health benefits of dreaming. 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.

The ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Surprising Health Benefits of Dreaming | Sleeping with Science and the theme of dreaming and its connection to mental and emotional health. Students learn vocabulary related to dreaming and psychological well-being, discuss quotations about dreaming, talk about dreaming and its connection to mental and emotional health, 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, perform a roleplay, read an article titled Healing in Your Sleep: How Dreams Help Mental Health, answer comprehension questions, write about what they have learned from reading an article, and reflect on the lesson.

🧠 Learning Objectives
Students will:

• Explore the concept of dreaming and its connection to mental and emotional health

• Expand their vocabulary related to dreaming and psychological well-being

• Develop viewing, listening, and reading comprehension skills

• Improve writing skills through creative and reflective tasks using new vocabulary

• Practise speaking skills through discussions and a roleplay activity

• Engage in critical thinking and personal reflection

• Foster multimodal learning through a visually creative homework task

🎬 Lesson Activities
Throughout this 90–120 minute lesson, students will:

• Discuss quotations about dreaming and mental health

• Predict the content of a short video based on its title

• Watch the video and complete comprehension and analysis tasks

• Write about what they’ve learned from the video

• Perform a roleplay related to the topic

• Read an article titled Healing in Your Sleep: How Dreams Help Mental Health

• Answer comprehension questions based on the article

• Discuss key issues raised in the article

• Reflect on the lesson and express their own views in writing

👥 Learner Type
Suitable for teens and adults at B1–B2 level

📚 Language Focus
Vocabulary related to:

• Dreaming

• Mental and emotional health

• Psychological well-being

Watch the short video.

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