B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Managing Strong Emotions

Lesson Summary:
This ESL video lesson plan explores strong emotions and how to manage them effectively through a short video titled Managing Strong Emotions: Working Towards Wellbeing. Designed for Intermediate to Upper Intermediate learners, the lesson combines viewing, discussion, roleplay and reflective tasks to help students build emotional vocabulary, improve comprehension skills and develop greater awareness of emotional wellbeing.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the theme of strong emotions and managing them effectively.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to emotions, behaviour and self-management.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative and reflective tasks and use of new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through discussion and roleplay using new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.
• To practise critical thinking through discussion, reflection and personalisation.

Lesson Activities:
• Exploring personal experiences of strong emotions.
• Predicting and viewing a short video on emotional regulation.
• Answering comprehension questions and analysing key ideas.
• Taking part in discussion and roleplay activities.
• Reading and responding to an article on mindfulness and emotions.
• Completing reflective speaking and writing tasks.

Learner Type:
Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2), mature teens and adults.

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary related to emotions and emotional awareness
• Behaviour and self-management strategies
• Language for reflection and personal response

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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