Category: Genre: Short video

This ESL lesson is designed around a short video titled Success, and the theme of the nature of success. Students talk about the nature of success, watch a short film and reflect on their own successes.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: […]

An ESL lesson plan designed around a short video titled Racism is Real . In the lesson students watch the video, identify eight differences between the treatment of black versus white people, read a pledge, write their own pledge, and discuss racism and discrimination.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner […]

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short film by Tracy Foster for The School of Life titled How to Become a Better Person. Students work on abstract nouns, discuss virtues important in the modern world and watch a short film.     Language level: Upper Intermediate (B2) – Advanced (C1) Learner type: […]

This ESL video lesson is designed around a short film by The Mercadantes which explores how beauty can be found in the most seemingly mundane objects, and the theme of colours. Students revise colours, come up with objects of a certain colour, watch a short film, and take their own photos for homework.     […]

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Paris / New York. In the lessons learn vocabulary related to cities, describe features of both cities and then compare them, and then watch the short film.     Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) –Intermediate (B1) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 60 minutes […]

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a video of London. Students talk about what they know about London, compare London in the past and now, do a dictation and discuss their hometowns.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: watching a […]

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a video commissioned by the Barbican arts centre, London and the theme of music. Students practise adjectives to describe emotions, watch a short video, talk about music and discuss quotations about music.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: […]