B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Coca-Cola Ad
This B1-level ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video that explores the theme of healthy eating and lifestyles. 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 video lesson plan is designed around a Coca-Cola video and the theme of healthy eating and lifestyles. Students compare their eating habits and lifestyle with those of their grandparents, watch an advert, read a press release and talk about the values Coca-Cola adverts try to transmit.
Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2)
Learner type: Teens and adults
Time: 60 minutes
Activity: Watching a short film, reading a press release, speaking and writing
Topic: Healthy lifestyles, eating and adverts
Language: Food vocabulary, lifestyle vocabulary and comparatives
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Both my students and I love your films and make us have precious conversation.
Thank you.
Maria Borbandi
Budapest,Hungary
Hi Maria,
I’m really happy you and your students like the lessons so much.
All the best,
Kieran
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marina from italy
Hi Marina,
You’re very welcome. Thanks a lot for commenting. I’m really happy you like the lesson so much.
All the best,
Kieran
Thank you so much. My students and I are in the middle of a unit about food an drink, healthy habits, ordering food at a restaurant etc so this lesson will be really helpful to motivate them and get them talking (not only the typical role-play waiter – costumer(s), which works because I record them and upload it on the school’s blog), but this lesson is great. Thank you again!
Hi Rosa,
You’re welcome. Thanks a lot for the kind words. I’m really happy the lessons so much and I hope your students like it too..
All the best,
Kieran
I love your website! This lesson plan is perfect for one of the lessons I’ve planned for my B2 level class.
Thanks!
Hi Ximena,
Thanks a lot for the kind words. Please let me know how the lesson goes with your students.
All the best,
Kieran
Thank you, this is wonderful and very helpful. Lovely idea too. I will most certainly use it for my first ESL Conversation Lesson.
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Hi Paola,
Thanks a lot for the kind words. I’m really happy you like the lessons so much.
All the best,
Kieran
I adapted this lesson in a writing task for kids. 🙂
Hi Diana,
I’m sure the kids enjoyed it 🙂
All the best,
Kieran
Hi, Kieran! I enjoyed watching this Coke ad. This is a perfect warm-up for my speaking activities. It’s good exercise for using comparisons. This is also a good resource to teach about past and present tenses and comparative adjectives.
Hi JM,
Thanks a lot for the kind words. I’m really happy you like the lesson so much and I hope your students do too.
All the best,
Kieran
Great help for teachers around the world. A wonderful didactic tool that makes the teaching of English entertaining and profitable for both educators and students. Thanks a lot from Spain!!!.
Hi Isabel,
Thanks a lot for the kind words.
All the best,
Kieran
Dear Kieran,
I’m a teacher at the Centre of Adult Education in Tervuren/Hoeilaart, near Brussels, Belgium. My colleague recommended your website, and I used it in my lesson of English conversation (advanced level) yesterday and it worked wonderfully well! I showed them the Coca Cola advert and used your lesson plan (which is very well constructed, congratulations!). My students were very enthusiastic and motivated and just loved the lesson (they normally do, but now even a bit more!).
Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful material with other teachers.
Francis De Meulemeester
CVO (Centrum voor Volwassenenonderwijs) Tervuren/Hoeilaart,
Belgium
Dear Francis,
Thanks a lot for commenting. I’m really happy you and your students enjoyed the lesson so much.
All the best,
Kieran
Hi Kieran, great motivating lesson material!
I have one question though. Isn’t it a little too much to expect from the pupils that they immediately and accurately reflect on the liftestyle of their grandparents in step one? If I asked this in my classes I would not get much response, I think. Maybe you could ask them to interview their grandparents about their lifestyles in advance so they have more support before starting this lesson?