Category: Compassion

A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Finding Empathy

Published on March 30, 2025

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Finding Empathy for Yourself and Others and the themes of empathy and how to develop it. Students learn vocabulary related to emotions and mindfulness, talk about empathy and how to develop it, discuss quotations about empathy, predict the content of a short video, watch […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Why Suffering is Necessary

Published on October 1, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Why your Epicurean approach will never make you truly happy and the themes of happiness and suffering. Students learn vocabulary related to happiness and suffering, talk about happiness and suffering, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, check true/false sentences, […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Loneliness and the Power of Connection

Published on September 15, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Loneliness and the Power of Connection and the themes of loneliness and connection. Students learn vocabulary related to loneliness and connection, talk about loneliness and connection, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, discuss quotations from a […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: The Importance of Character

Published on September 12, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Character in the Selfie Age and the theme of the importance of character. Students learn vocabulary related to character, talk about character, talk about the virtues needed to have a good character, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer […]

B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Spot Lovely People

Published on July 17, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Spot the Loveliest People in the World and the theme of lovely people. Students learn vocabulary related to personality traits, talk about personality traits and lovely people, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, make viewing notes, analyse […]

A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: You make the holidays

Published on December 10, 2023

By kierandonaghy

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a Christmas short film and the themes of grumpiness and Christmas. Students talk about grumpy people, watch the first part of a short film, predict the end of a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, write from the perspective of a character in a […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Can I help you with anything?

Published on October 25, 2023

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Can I help you with anything? and the theme of kindness. In the lesson students predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, speak about the short film and kindness, and perform a roleplay.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: All That We Share

Published on October 10, 2023

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled All That We Share by Danish TV channel TV2Danmark. In the lesson students talk about the communities they belong to, find out what they share with their classmates, watch and discuss a video about what a community shares.   Language level: Intermediate (B1) – […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Refugees

Published on February 5, 2023

By kierandonaghy

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around an animated short film and the theme of refugees. Students practise vocabulary related to refugees, speak about refugees, watch a short film, retell a story, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, empathise with a refugee child, reflect on the lesson and write an account of a […]