A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How the Environment Affects Our Health

Lesson Summary:

This Pre-intermediate (A2) to Intermediate (B1) ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video titled How Does the Environment Affect Our Health? and explores the theme of the environment and its connection to our health. It is designed to help mature teens and adults develop key language skills — listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing — through guided discussion, roleplay, vocabulary building, comprehension questions, article reading and engaging classroom activities.

Learning Objectives:

• To introduce students to the concept of the environment and its connection to our health
• To expand vocabulary related to nature, pollution, health and well-being
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative tasks and use of new vocabulary
• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussions using new vocabulary
• To improve students’ critical thinking skills through discussion and reflection
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks

Lesson Activities:

• Discuss the environment and its connection to health
• Explore quotations about the environment
• Predict the content of a short video
• Watch and analyse How Does the Environment Affect Our Health?
• Answer comprehension questions on the video
• Read and discuss the article How Green Spaces Can Improve Our Health
• Practise new vocabulary through speaking and writing activities
• Complete creative and multimodal homework tasks

Learner Type:

Pre-intermediate (A2) to Intermediate (B1); mature teens and adults

Language Focus:

• Nature, green spaces and the environment
• Pollution, traffic and public health
• Physical health, mental health and well-being
• Giving opinions and supporting ideas
• Discussing causes, effects and solutions

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
• Promote social-emotional learning (SEL)
• 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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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.