B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Get People to Listen to You

Lesson Summary:

This Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) ESL lesson plan is built around a short video titled How to Get People to Listen to You. It explores the themes of active listening, attentive communication and workplace influence. Students discuss the qualities of good listeners, reflect on famous quotations about listening, learn vocabulary related to communication, conflict, body language and persuasion, watch and analyse a short video, read a follow-up article titled Why Confidence and Curiosity Help People Listen, answer comprehension questions and complete speaking, writing, roleplay and multimodal tasks. The lesson helps learners develop key language skills through viewing, discussion and creative activities.

Learning Objectives:

• To introduce students to the concepts of active listening, attentive communication and workplace influence.
• To expand vocabulary related to listening, communication, conflict, body language and persuasion.
• 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:

• Discuss what makes someone a good listener.
• Respond to quotations about listening.
• Predict the content of a short video.
• Watch a video about how to get people to listen.
• Answer comprehension questions and analyse key ideas.
• Read and discuss a follow-up article.
• Practise new vocabulary through speaking and writing tasks.
• Perform a workplace roleplay and complete multimodal homework tasks.

Learner Type:

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

Language Focus:

• Active listening and attentive communication.
• Workplace influence, persuasion and professional disagreement.
• Conflict management, body language, confidence and curiosity.

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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This ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video and designed using the innovative Multimodal Approach, integrating listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and representing. Engage learners with real-world themes, develop communicative competence, build vocabulary and foster critical thinking through dynamic, research-informed activities. Find out more about the Multimodal Approach and join thousands of teachers transforming their classrooms with Film English.