B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Deepen Your Friendships

Lesson Summary:
This Upper Intermediate to Advanced ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video titled How to Deepen Your Friendships and explores how friendships grow stronger through emotional openness and meaningful communication. The lesson guides students through vocabulary development, viewing and analysis tasks, roleplay, a reading extension and reflective activities that support deeper understanding of friendship dynamics and effective interpersonal communication.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the themes of friendship and how to deepen friendship.
• To expand vocabulary related to friendship, emotional openness and communication.
• 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 and use of new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.
• To develop critical thinking through discussion and reflection.

Lesson Activities:
• Explore quotations and ideas about friendship.
• Predict and watch a short video on deepening friendships.
• Complete comprehension and analysis tasks.
• Learn vocabulary related to openness and communication.
• Engage in a roleplay on strengthening friendships.
• Read the article Becoming the Friend You Wish You Had.
• Discuss and write about issues raised in the article.
• Complete multimodal homework tasks.

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

Language Focus:
Vocabulary related to friendship, emotional openness and communication.

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
• 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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