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C1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Improve Your Relationships

Published on December 31, 2025
By kierandonaghy
Lesson Summary:This Advanced (C1) to Proficient (C2) ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video titled Five Ways to Improve Your Relationships. The lesson explores relationships, human connection and self-awareness, encouraging learners to reflect on communication, conflict and emotional honesty. Through viewing and discussion, roleplay, vocabulary development and an extended reading article, […]

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B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How Social Media Affects Our Emotions

Published on December 29, 2025
By kierandonaghy
Lesson Summary:This Intermediate to Upper Intermediate ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video Is Social Media Messing with Our Emotions? and explores how social media shapes emotional experience in modern life. Learners engage with thought-provoking viewing tasks, discussion, roleplay and an extended reading text titled Designing Social Media for Emotional Well-being. The […]

A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: New Year’s Resolutions

Published on December 21, 2025
By kierandonaghy
Lesson Summary:This ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video that explores New Year’s resolutions and why they often fail. Aimed at Pre-intermediate (A2) to Intermediate (B1) learners, the lesson encourages reflection on goal setting, habits and personal change through viewing, discussion, roleplay and writing. Learners also engage with an article titled […]

B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Clearly Communicate an Idea

Published on December 18, 2025
By kierandonaghy
Lesson Summary:This B1–B2 ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video that explores effective communication in public speaking. Learners examine how speakers communicate ideas clearly through structure and purpose, develop vocabulary related to planning and delivering messages, and engage in discussion, roleplay, and reflective writing. The lesson also includes a reading text that […]

B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Why Humiliation Exists

Published on December 16, 2025
By kierandonaghy
Lesson Summary:This Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video that explores humiliation and its social function. Learners examine why humiliation exists, how it operates in society and how public shame can be challenged. Through viewing, discussion and creative activities, students develop language skills, critical thinking […]

C1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How Reading Changes Your Brain

Published on December 14, 2025
By kierandonaghy
  Lesson Summary:This Advanced to Proficient ESL video lesson plan is built around the video How Reading Changes the Way Your Brain Works and explores the powerful relationship between reading, cognition and the brain. Through viewing, discussion and creative activities, learners examine how reading developed, how it shapes brain function and why deep reading matters […]

Extensive Viewing Guide: A Real Pain

Published on December 11, 2025
By kierandonaghy
  A 72-page Extensive Viewing guide to the award-winning film A Real Pain starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey and Kurt Egyiawan 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. The viewing guide includes: […]

B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Deepen Your Friendships

Published on December 9, 2025
By kierandonaghy
Lesson Summary:This Upper Intermediate to Advanced ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video titled How to Deepen Your Friendships and explores how friendships grow stronger through emotional openness and meaningful communication. The lesson guides students through vocabulary development, viewing and analysis tasks, roleplay, a reading extension and reflective activities that support deeper […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Living on a Bus

Published on December 7, 2025
By kierandonaghy
Lesson Summary:This Intermediate to Upper Intermediate ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video about a young couple who decide to live on a bus to escape the high cost of living in Chicago. The lesson explores the themes of alternative living and the search for a simpler life. Students develop their vocabulary, […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Setting Healthy Boundaries

Published on December 4, 2025
By kierandonaghy
  Lesson Summary:This ESL video lesson plan explores the themes of friendship and setting healthy boundaries through a short video. Aimed at Intermediate to Upper Intermediate learners, it helps students develop vocabulary, communication strategies and confidence as they analyse video content, discuss ideas and reflect on their own experiences. Learning Objectives:• To introduce students to […]

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