Listening

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Snack Attack and the theme of stereotypes. Students talk about stereotypes, watch a short film, predict the end of a story, perform a roleplay and discuss a short film.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a delightful short film by Alyce Tzue titled Soar and the theme of flying. Students listen to a description of a scene, visualise it, predict what is going to happen next, write a narrative, watch a short film and discuss it.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film by Arturo Perez and the theme of soulmates. Students discuss love and soulmates, watch a short film, listen for specific information, discuss a short film, answer an interactive questionnaire and reflect on the lesson.

A 46-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-winning film Sound of Metal starring Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke and Paul Raci for English language students who want to learn English through watching films. The guide will help students improve their English vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking.

75-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-winning film Spectre starring Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris for English language students who want to learn English through watching films. The guide will help students improve their English vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking. 

This ESL lesson is designed around a short film by Meghann Artes and the theme of dating. In the lesson students talk about meeting a partner and dating, watch a short film, and read and discuss speed-dating questions.

An 80-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-winning film Spotlight starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Liev Schreiber for English language students who want to learn English through watching films. The guide will help students improve their English vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Stand Up and the themes of discrimination and taking a stand against discrimination. Students learn vocabulary related to discrimination, work on phrasal verbs that include ‘stand up’, talk about discrimination, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

This 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.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video about the cityscape artist Stephen Wiltshire. Students describe the character of a person they know, describe the character of a person in a photo, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

These 50 generic questions help English language students to analyse and talk about the stories in film texts.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Urban Interventions Transform City Streets and the theme of street art. Students learn vocabulary related to street art, talk about street art, talk about photos of street art, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write from the perspective of a street artist and reflect on the lesson.

This complete ESL video lesson plan, Meet the Street Artist Transforming Dubai, engages learners with the theme of street art and street artists. Designed for B1–B2 students, it includes vocabulary building, comprehension tasks, roleplay, article reading, and creative follow-up activities. Perfect for teachers who want a ready-to-use resource that develops language and critical thinking skills.

Lesson Summary:This complete ESL video lesson plan for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) learners explores the theme of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on education. Based on the short video Is it OK to Use AI When Studying?, it helps students build vocabulary connected to AI, learning and technology while developing communication, critical […]

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Subway Knitter and the theme of knitting. Students learn vocabulary related to knitting, talk about knitting, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, talk about a character in a short video, analyse a short video, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson is designed around a short video titled Success, and the theme of the nature of success. Students talk about the nature of success, watch a short film and reflect on their own successes.