C1 ESL Lesson Plan: Facilitating Collaboration

Lesson Summary

How can leaders help people work creatively together? This ESL lesson plan for C1–C2 learners explores collaboration and how to facilitate it through the short video The Art of Working without a Net. Students discuss shared goals, creative freedom and uncertainty, then practise expressing ideas through analysis, roleplay and writing. The article How Leaders Create the Conditions for Collaboration provides further opportunities for critical thinking and vocabulary development.

Learning Objectives

• To explore collaboration and how to facilitate it.
• To expand vocabulary related to collaboration, creativity and leadership.
• To develop viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To develop writing skills through reflection and new vocabulary.
• To improve speaking skills through discussion and roleplay.
• To strengthen visual representing skills through multimodal composition.

Lesson Activities

• Discuss a quotation and share perspectives on collaboration.
• Predict the content of a short video.
• Watch the video, answer comprehension questions and analyse its ideas.
• Write about learning from the video.
• Perform a roleplay to negotiate a collaborative approach.
• Read a follow-up article and answer comprehension questions.
• Discuss leadership strategies and write a reflection.
• Reflect on the lesson and complete multimodal homework tasks.

Learner Type

Mature teens and adults.

Language Level

Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2).

Language Focus

• Vocabulary related to collaboration, creativity and leadership.
• Language for sharing perspectives, proposing solutions and reaching agreement.
• Language for analysing ideas and writing reflective responses.

Time

90–120 minutes.

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

Watch the short video.

Remember that Individual Membership and Institutional Membership of Film English Club allow unlimited access to all 800+ Film English Club Video Lesson Plans, Extensive Viewing Guides and Film Study Worksheets.

We hope you enjoy this ESL video lesson plan.

Thanks for being part of the Film English community, and happy teaching!
— The Film English Team

Transform Your English Classroom with the Multimodal Approach
This ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video and designed using the innovative Multimodal Approach, integrating listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and representing. Engage learners with real-world themes, develop communicative competence, build vocabulary and foster critical thinking through dynamic, research-informed activities. Find out more about the Multimodal Approach and join thousands of teachers transforming their classrooms with Film English.