Category: Lesson plan

B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Gold Costs More than Money

Published on September 10, 2017

By kierandonaghy

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short video produced by Hothouse Productions in collaboration with The NO Project, an award-winning global educational campaign that specifically targets youth awareness of human trafficking through music, art, dance, film, animation, sport, creative writing and social media. In the lesson students practice vocabulary related to gold, […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: In a Heartbeat

Published on August 6, 2017

By kierandonaghy

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short film titled In a Heartbeat and the theme of love. Students learn and practice expressions using the word “heart”, watch a short film trailer, predict and write a story, watch and discuss a short film, and watch and discuss a video in which elderly people […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: The Employment

Published on March 21, 2017

By kierandonaghy

This ELT video lesson plan is designed around a short film titled The Employment and the themes of jobs and employment. Students revise job vocabulary, talk about jobs and employment, and watch and discuss a short film about employment.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Julio Diaz

Published on March 13, 2017

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video by Story Corps and the theme of empathy. In the lesson students talk about an imaginary situation, listen to a story, watch a video, speak, and write an account of an incident from another person’s perspective.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Alike

Published on February 27, 2017

By kierandonaghy

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Alike and the theme of the impact of societal pressures on childhood and family relationships. In the lesson students practise using alike, adjectives to describe character and routines, watch a short film, predict how the film will end and speak about the film […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Albert and Aidan Sykes

Published on January 15, 2017

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Albert and Aidan Sykes, and the themes of family and racism. In the lesson students do a dictation, predict the answer to questions, listen to an interview, answer comprehension questions, watch two short videos, and speak about the videos.     Language level: Intermediate […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Taking Flight

Published on October 31, 2016

By kierandonaghy

This ESL video 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.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate […]

A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: My earliest childhood memory…

Published on October 14, 2016

By kierandonaghy

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short film by titled My earliest Childhood Memory, and the theme of childhood memories. Students describe their earliest childhood memory and listen to other students describe theirs, watch a short film and reconstruct the narration, and talk about other childhood memories.     Language level: Pre-intermediate […]

B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Penelope in the Treehouse

Published on September 5, 2016

By kierandonaghy

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Penelope in the Treehouse and the theme of families. In the lesson students watch but don’t hear the start of a short film, decide what is happening and what the characters are saying, predict the rest of the story and write a story. […]