B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Break Bad Habits

Lesson Summary:
This Upper Intermediate to Advanced ESL lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short animated video that explores why habits are difficult to break. Focusing on habits and habitual behaviour, the lesson helps learners develop key language skills through viewing, discussion, roleplay, reading and reflective writing activities.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the concept of habits and habitual behaviour.
• To explore the science behind habits and how they are formed.
• To expand vocabulary related to habits and behaviour change.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through discussion and roleplay using topic-specific vocabulary.
• To develop students’ writing skills through reflective tasks.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal tasks.

Lesson Activities:
• Pre-viewing discussion and prediction tasks on habits.
• Viewing and analysing a short animated video.
• Video comprehension and critical thinking questions.
• Guided discussion and structured roleplay activities.
• Reading an in-depth article on building better habits.
• Article comprehension, discussion and reflective writing tasks.

Learner Type:
Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1)
Mature teens and adults

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary related to habits and habitual behaviour
• Language for discussing behaviour change and routines

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

Watch the short video.

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