B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Step into Awe

📝 Lesson Summary
This B2-level ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video that explores the concept of awe and its impact on human perception and emotion. 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 Awe and the theme of awe and its impact on human perception and emotion. Students learn vocabulary related to awe, attention and perception, talk about awe, discuss quotations about awe, 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 titled Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Awe in Everyday Life, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, write about what they have learned from reading an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

🧠 Learning Objectives
Students will:

• Explore the concept of awe and its impact on human perception and emotion

• Expand their vocabulary related to awe, attention, and perception

• Develop viewing, listening, and reading comprehension skills

• Improve speaking and listening through structured discussions and a roleplay activity

• Strengthen writing through reflection and use of topic-specific vocabulary

• Enhance multimodal representation skills through creative homework tasks

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

• Talk about the experience of awe and its emotional effects

• Discuss quotations related to awe and wonder

• Watch the video and complete comprehension and analysis tasks

• Write about what they’ve learned from the video

• Read an article titled Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Awe in Everyday Life

• Answer comprehension questions based on the article

• Discuss key ideas raised in the article

• Perform a roleplay based on scenarios that evoke awe

• Reflect on the lesson and express their views in writing

👥 Learner Type
Suitable for teens and adults at B2–C1 level

📚 Language Focus
Vocabulary related to:

• Awe

• Attention

• Perception

Watch the short video.

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