B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Get People to Like You

Lesson Summary
This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Get People to Like You When You’re Starting a New Job. It helps Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) students explore the theme of being likeable in personal and professional situations.

Students learn useful vocabulary related to social interaction, workplace relationships and positive communication. They discuss what makes people likeable, predict the content of the video, watch and analyse the video, answer comprehension questions and reflect on the advice given.

The lesson also includes a follow-up article titled The Psychology of Likeability: Why People Warm to Some People Quickly. Students answer comprehension questions, discuss the ideas in the article, practise new vocabulary and take part in a workplace roleplay.

Learning Objectives
• To introduce students to the concept of being likeable in personal and professional situations.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to social interaction, workplace relationships and positive 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, discussion and use of new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.

Lesson Activities
• Students discuss qualities of likeable people and how to make a good first impression.
• Students watch a video about getting people to like you in a new job.
• Students complete comprehension questions, vocabulary tasks and critical thinking questions.
• Students read an article about the psychology of likeability.
• Students perform a roleplay about building positive workplace relationships.
• Students complete speaking, writing and multimodal homework tasks.

Learner Type
• Mature teens and adults.

Language Level
• Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2).

Language Focus
• Vocabulary related to social interaction, workplace relationships, positive communication, likeability, trust, rapport, body language, compliments and professional behaviour.

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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