Writing

Symmetry

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Symmetry and the theme of binomials. Students work on antonyms and collocations, watch a short film and identify antonyms and collocations, analyse a short film, complete binomial pairs, write a dialogue and reflect on the lesson.

Table 7

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Table 7 and the themes of arguments and forgiveness. Students learn vocabulary and expressions related to arguments and forgiveness, talk about arguing, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film, perform an argument roleplay, read and discuss quotations about forgiveness and reflect on the lesson.

Tackling Youth Loneliness

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video and the themes of loneliness and youth loneliness. Students learn vocabulary related to loneliness and social interaction, talk about loneliness and youth loneliness, discuss quotations about loneliness, discuss pre-viewing question related to 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, discuss topics raised in an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

Taking Flight

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Taking Flight and the themes of childhood games, grandparents and grandchildren. Students watch a short film, predict a story, retell a story, discuss the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, and discuss a short film.

Taking Pictures

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Taking Pictures and the theme of photos. Students learn and practise vocabulary related to photos, describe a photo, listen to a description of a photo, and talk about photos.

Teenage Problems

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film for a song titled Two Fingers and the theme of teenage problems. Students learn vocabulary related to teenage problems, talk about teenage problems, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film without sound, write down the story the film tells and the thoughts of the protagonist, watch a short film with sound and write down the song lyrics, analyse a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

Television

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Television inspired by Todd Alcott’s poem of the same name and the theme of television. Students learn vocabulary related to television, talk about television, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, discuss the meaning of a poem and short video, analyse a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

Thankful

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Say Thank You and the themes of being thankful and organ donation. Students write about being thankful, talk about being thankful, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

The 15-minute City

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Simple Idea that Could Transform City Life and the themes of cities and the 15-minute city. Students learn vocabulary related to cities, talk about cities, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, talk about the 15-minute city, watch a second video about the 15-minute city and reflect on the lesson.

The 5Ss and 5Cs Framework

The 5Ss (Story, Setting, Sound, Social Issues, Self) and 5Cs (Character, Camera, Colour, Composition, Culture and Language) provide an effective framework in language education for analysis, scaffolding pre-viewing and post-viewing discussion and focusing attention on the different modes used in film. The 13-page framework provides generic discussion questions for each of the 10 categories to help English language students analyse and talk about films more effectively.

The Adventures of a Cardboard Box

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film called The Adventures of a Cardboard Box in which a small boy finds myriad of uses for a cardboard box and the theme of creativity. Students do activities to encourage creativity, watch a short film, talk about a short film and discuss creativity.

The Alphabet of Illiteracy

This ESL video lesson plan titled ‘The Alphabet of Illiteracy’ 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.   Transform Your English Classroom with This Film English Multimodal Lesson This ESL lesson plan is built around a carefully […]

The Arrival

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled The Arrival. Students talk about decision-making, watch a short film, write a monologue, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film and reflect on the lesson.

The Art of Argument

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Art of Argument and the themes of argument and how to construct an effective argument. Students learn vocabulary related to argument and how to construct an effective argument, discuss quotations about argument, talk about argument and how to construct an effective argument, 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, discuss topics raised in an article, write about what they have learned from reading an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

The Art of Listening

Lesson Summary:This complete ESL video lesson plan, based on the video The Art of Listening: How does listening help us embrace different perspectives?, helps learners explore listening as an active and emotional skill. Designed for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) students, it includes vocabulary development, discussion of quotations, video analysis, comprehension tasks, roleplay, article […]

The Art of Love

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled The Art of Love and the theme of love. Students learn vocabulary related to love, talk about love, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, predict the middle and end of a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

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