B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Eat More Healthily

Lesson Summary:
This ESL video lesson plan is a complete ready-to-use package built around a short video titled My 5 Simple Steps to Eat Healthier. It helps Upper Intermediate to Advanced learners develop language skills while exploring nutrition, healthy eating habits and lifestyle choices through viewing and discussion, critical thinking, roleplay and a substantial follow-up reading.

Learning Objectives:
• Build awareness of nutrition and healthy eating
• Develop topic-specific vocabulary
• Improve viewing listening and reading comprehension
• Practise writing through reflective tasks
• Strengthen speaking through discussion and roleplay
• Enhance visual representing through creative homework

Lesson Activities:
• Food and health lead-in activities
• Video prediction and viewing
• Comprehension and analysis tasks
• Vocabulary-focused speaking work
• Roleplay on healthy routines
• Reading and discussion of the follow-up article
• Writing and reflection tasks

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

Language Focus:
• Nutrition and healthy eating
• Food choices and habits
• Lifestyle vocabulary
• Wellbeing and energy

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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