B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Sharpen Your Critical Thinking

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Five simple strategies to sharpen your critical thinking and the themes of critical thinking and how to sharpen your critical thinking. Students learn vocabulary related to critical thinking, talk about critical thinking and how to sharpen your critical thinking, discuss quotations about critical thinking, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, develop critical thinking skills by exploring issues raised in a short video, read an article, answer comprehension questions, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2)

Learner type: Mature teens and adults

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the concept of critical thinking
• To build students’ awareness of cognitive biases and logical fallacies
• To improve students’ ability to evaluate information critically
• To encourage discussion and debate using intellectual empathy
• To enhance vocabulary related to critical thinking
• To promote the application of critical thinking in everyday contexts

Topic: Critical thinking and how to sharpen your critical thinking

Language: Vocabulary related to critical thinking

Watch the short video.

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