
B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Secrets to a Successful Relationship
This B2-level ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video that explores the theme of successful relationships. It is designed to help learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing—through guided discussion, roleplay, vocabulary building, and engaging classroom activities.
Check out the lesson planThis ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The 17 Secrets to a Successful Relationship and the theme of successful relationships. Students learn abstract nouns to describe character and vocabulary related to relationships, talk about romantic partners and the secrets to a successful relationship, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.
Language level: Upper Intermediate (B2) – Advanced (C1)
Learner type: Adults
Time: 90 minutes
Activity: Learning abstract nouns to describe character and vocabulary related to relationships, talking about romantic partners and the secrets to a successful relationship, predicting the content of a short video, watching a short video, completing viewing notes, analysing a short video, performing a roleplay and reflecting on the lesson
Topic: Successful relationships
Language: Abstract nouns to describe character and vocabulary related to relationships
Benefits for Teachers:
- Save hours of preparation with a fully developed, flexible lesson plan
- Engage students through compelling stories and real-world themes such as emotional intelligence, character, values, empathy, personal development, identity, relationships, global issues and social issues
- Build classroom routines that integrate multimodal literacy naturally and progressively
- Foster more inclusive and differentiated learning by using varied modes of input
- Rely on a trusted methodology backed by educational research and grounded in the theories of Vygotsky, Kress, Mayer and Krashen
Benefits for Learners:
- Develop communicative competence and confidence through integrated skill-building
- Expand vocabulary and improve listening and reading comprehension through repeated, meaningful exposure
- Think critically and creatively while exploring powerful social and emotional themes
- Strengthen emotional intelligence and intercultural awareness through affective engagement with multimodal texts
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