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This complete B2–C1 ESL video lesson plan explores different ways of defining professional success and the dangers of allowing a career to become the basis of personal identity. Built around a thought-provoking video featuring Arthur C. Brooks, the lesson encourages adult learners to examine the relationship between achievement, professional status, self-esteem and fear of failure.

This complete ESL video lesson plan is designed for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) learners and explores the importance of morning sunlight for health, mood, sleep and wellbeing. Built around the short video Why Is Morning Light So Important?, the lesson helps students develop viewing, listening, speaking, reading, writing and visual representing skills through discussion, vocabulary work, comprehension tasks, roleplay, an article and multimodal homework.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Why Non-alcoholic Beer Is So Popular Now and the theme of the rise of non-alcoholic beer. Students learn vocabulary related to brewing, marketing and health trends, talk about non-alcoholic beer, 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 s…

This ESL lesson plan is based on the short video What Happens to Humans When We Can’t Touch? It encourages students to explore the biological, emotional and social importance of positive touch across the human lifespan.

This engaging ESL lesson plan is designed around the short video Kids Don’t Always Make You Happier. Here’s Why People Have Them Anyway. Students explore having children, the reasons people become parents and the relationship between parenthood, happiness, meaning and identity.