Writing

Homeless Food Truck

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Food Truck for the Homeless and the theme of homelessness. Students learn vocabulary related to homelessness, talk about homelessness, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short video, perform a roleplay, write a composition and reflect on the lesson.

Homeless Runner

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Every Runner Has a Reason and the theme of running. Students talk about running, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

Homes for Homeless

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Tiny Homes for the Homeless and the theme of homelessness. Students learn vocabulary related to homelessness, talk about homelessness, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

Housekeeping

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Housekeeping. In the lesson students learn hotel jobs vocabulary, speak about hotel jobs, watch a short film, predict the end of a story, speak about a short film and perform a roleplay.

How a Vegan Diet Affects Your Brain

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How a Vegan Diet Affects Your Brain and the themes of veganism and how a vegan diet affects the brain. Students learn vocabulary related to nutrition, health and veganism, talk about veganism and how a vegan diet affects the brain, discuss quotations about veganism, 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 and reflect on the lesson.

How AI Can Improve Your Life

This engaging ESL video lesson plan helps B1–B2 learners explore how artificial intelligence is transforming everyday life. Built around a thought-provoking video and a follow-up article, the lesson provides a complete, ready-to-use package that develops key language skills while encouraging critical thinking. Students expand their vocabulary related to AI and digital technology, practise speaking through discussion and roleplay, and build confidence in expressing ideas about modern technological trends.

How Being Bilingual Enhances Creativity

This engaging, free ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video titled How Being Bilingual Enhances Creativity and explores the cognitive and cultural benefits of bilingualism. Suitable for Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) learners, it includes vocabulary-building tasks, video-based analysis, critical discussion, reading comprehension, and creative writing.

How Friendship Affects Your Brain

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How friendship affects your brain and the themes of friendship and its impact on the brain. Students learn vocabulary related to friendship and psychology, talk about friendship, 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, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

How Isolation Affects the Brain

Lesson Summary:This ESL video lesson plan, based on the short film What Happens to Your Brain Without Any Social Contact?, explores isolation and its effects on the brain and mental health. It offers a complete, ready-to-use lesson for mature teens and adults. Students learn and practise vocabulary related to isolation, the brain and mental health […]

How Nature Can Make You Feel Calmer

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How Nature Can Make You Feel Calmer and the themes of nature and the positive impact of nature on well-being. Students learn vocabulary related to nature, emotions and health, discuss quotations about nature and the positive impact of nature on well-being, talk about nature and the positive impact of nature on well-being, 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 Green Cities: Designing Urban Spaces for Calm and Well-being, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, write about what they have learned from reading an article, and reflect on the lesson.

How Reading Changes Your Brain

Lesson Summary:This ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video How Reading Changes the Way Your Brain Works and explores the themes of reading and how reading changes the brain. Designed for Advanced to Proficient learners, the lesson combines video viewing, discussion, quotation analysis, critical thinking tasks, roleplay and an extended reading text […]

How Social Media Affects Our Emotions

This ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video Is Social Media Messing with Our Emotions? and explores social media, its role in modern life and how it affects emotions. Designed for Intermediate to Upper Intermediate learners, it provides a complete, ready-to-use package with viewing tasks, discussion, roleplay, critical thinking activities and an extended reading text. Learners develop vocabulary related to emotions, technology and online behaviour while reflecting on the emotional impact of digital platforms.

How Stories Shape Our Minds

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How stories shape our minds | The science of storytelling and the themes of storytelling and how storytelling impacts our minds and behaviour. Students learn vocabulary related to storytelling and psychology, talk about storytelling, discuss quotations about storytelling, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, discuss quotes from a short video, 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, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

How the discovery of DNA changed the world

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How the discovery of DNA changed the world and the theme of DNA and how DNA has changed the world. Students learn vocabulary related to DNA, talk about DNA and how DNA has changed the world, 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 a short video and reflect on the lesson.

How To Accept Your Past Self

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Reconcile and Accept Your Past Self and the theme of self-acceptance and personal growth. Students learn vocabulary related to identity, reflection and self-compassion, talk about self-acceptance and personal growth, discuss quotations about self-acceptance and personal growth, 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 titled How to Forgive Yourself and Move Forward, 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.

How to Apologise

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The best way to apologize (according to science) and the theme of apologising. Students learn vocabulary and phrases related to apologising, talk about apologising, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

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