
B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to be alone
This B2-level ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video that explores the theme of how to be alone. 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 is designed around a short film by artist and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman, a poem by Tanya Davies, and the theme of being alone. Students talk about being alone, give advice about being alone, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, read a poem, discuss the meaning of a poem, analyse a short film and reflect on the lesson.
Language level: Upper-intermediate (B2) – Advanced (C1)
Learner type: Mature teens and adults
Time: 90 minutes
Activity: Talking about being alone, giving advice about being alone, watching a short film, answering comprehension questions, reading a poem, discussing the meaning of a poem, analysing a short film and reflecting on the lesson
Topic: Being alone
Language: Should, shouldn’t, ought to and imperative form, and vocabulary related to being alone
Watch the short film.
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