B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Change Your Personality

 

Lesson Summary
This engaging ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video How to Change Your Personality and explores the theme of personality and personality change. Suitable for Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) level students, the lesson is ideal for mature teens and adults. It features vocabulary-building, critical thinking, structured roleplay, article-based tasks, and multimodal reflection activities.

🧠 Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Explore the idea of whether personality can change over time

• Learn about the psychological factors influencing personality shifts

• Expand vocabulary related to personality, emotions, and behaviour

• Develop listening, viewing, and reading comprehension skills

• Improve speaking through structured discussions and roleplay

• Strengthen writing through reflective and creative tasks

• Practise visual representing and multimodal composition in homework tasks

🎬 Lesson Activities

In this 90–120 minute ESL video lesson, students will:

• Discuss their own personalities and how personality can change

• Analyse and discuss quotations about personality traits and change

• Predict and watch a short video, then complete comprehension tasks

• Reflect on how the video challenges their understanding of personality

• Read an article titled Small Habits, Big Changes: How to Rewire Your Behaviour One Step at a Time

• Answer comprehension questions and analyse main ideas in the text

• Engage in a roleplay about personality change in social situations

• Write reflectively about how they would like to change a personal trait

• Complete a multimodal homework composition

👥 Learner Type

Mature teens and adults at Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) levels

📚 Language Focus

Vocabulary related to:

• Personality traits and emotional expression

• Human behaviour and personal development

• Psychological change and self-awareness

 

 

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