Category: Empathy

‘How Friendship Affects Your Brain’ Lesson Plan

Published on January 12, 2025

By kierandonaghy

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 […]

‘Managing Your Mood’ Lesson Plan

Published on October 28, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Managing your Mood: Tips for Staying Present and the themes of moods and managing your moods. Students learn vocabulary related to moods and managing your moods, talk about moods and managing your moods, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, […]

‘Why Suffering is Necessary’ Lesson Plan

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, […]

‘Loneliness and the Power of Connection’ Lesson Plan

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 […]

‘What is Emotional Intelligence?’ Lesson Plan

Published on July 21, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Daniel Goleman Introduces Emotional Intelligence and the theme of emotional intelligence. Students learn vocabulary related to emotional intelligence, talk about emotional intelligence, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, write about what they […]

‘Highly Sensitive People’ Lesson Plan

Published on May 5, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Highly sensitive people are the best employees! and the themes of sensitivity and highly sensitive people. Students learn vocabulary related to sensitivity and highly sensitive people, talk about sensitivity and highly sensitive people, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, […]

‘Inside My Autistic Mind’ Lesson Plan

Published on February 4, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Inside My Autistic Mind and the theme of autism. Students learn vocabulary related to autism, talk about autism, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write from the perspective of an autistic person […]

‘Emotional Maturity’ Lesson Plan

Published on January 7, 2024

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled What Is It to Be Emotionally Mature and the theme of emotional maturity. Students learn vocabulary related to emotional maturity, talk about emotionally mature people, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, talk about the most important […]

‘Mrs. Hayes’ Lesson Plan

Published on December 12, 2023

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a Christmas short film and the theme of Christmas. Students learn vocabulary related to Christmas, talk about Christmas, read a description of a short film, visualise a short film, watch a short film, analyse a short film, write from the perspective of a character in a short film […]