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Sound of Metal

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.

Spectre

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. 

Speed dating

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.

Spotlight

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.

Stand Up

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.

Step into Awe

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.

Stephen Wiltshire

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.

Story Questions

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

Street Art

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.

Street Artist

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.

Studying with AI

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 […]

Subway Knitter

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.

Suffragette

A 47-page Extensive Viewing guide to the award-winning film Suffragette starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep 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.

Sully

A 60-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-nominated film Sully starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart and Laura Linney 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.

Superhero Kids

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Superhero Kids and the themes of superheroes and special needs children. Students learn vocabulary related to superheroes and inclusive education, talk about superheroes and inclusive education, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, and reflect on the lesson.

Sustainable Design

This ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan is built around the short film Inside Dubai’s Push for Sustainable Design and explores the themes of sustainability and sustainable design. Designed for Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) learners, it provides a complete 90–120 minute lesson package for mature teens and adults. Students expand vocabulary related to sustainability, recycling and innovation while developing viewing, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Through discussion, quotation analysis, prediction, comprehension tasks, roleplay and critical reflection, learners explore how design can address environmental challenges. The lesson also includes an extended reading text titled Plastic Reimagined: Creative Solutions for a Sustainable World, enabling deeper engagement with the topic and promoting critical thinking and multimodal learning.

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