B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: MOVE, LEARN, EAT
This B1-level ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video that explores the themes of travel, learning and food. It is designed to help learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing—through guided discussion, roleplay, vocabulary building, and engaging classroom activities.
Check out the lesson planThis ESL video lesson plan is designed around three minute-long short films titled Move, Learn, Eat and the themes of travel, learning and food. Students speak and write about a world trip, travel, learning and food, and watch three short videos.
Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper-intermediate (B2.1)
Learner type: All ages
Time: 90 minutes
Activity: Watching three short films, speculating, speaking and writing
Topic: Travel, food and learning
Language: Modal verbs of speculation, second conditional and food vocabulary
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- Foster more inclusive and differentiated learning by using varied modes of input
- 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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I love this idea and think it’s a great way of teaching students. Just one question – where did you take the films from? They don’t open in Mozilla Firefox. I can only watch the food landscapes.
Would be really great if you could drop me a hint.XYours,
Claudia
Hi Claudia,
Thanks a lot. I’ve just checked and I could watch the videos with Firefox. I imagine it was just a temporary problem with firefox, but if you still can’t see them, here’s a link to Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/27246366
All the best,
Kieran
Dear Kieran,
I recently came across your website having seen the rave reviews on the BBC’s Teaching English site. I am based in China and cannot access youtube, or Vimeo, or the majority of the videos/films – over here we mainly have access to YouKu or TuDou, I was wondering if you know of any other sites that will play the videos and I can give them a try.
What you are doing is awesome, and I’m really looking forward to introducing my students to your lesson plans – particularly in my ‘experimental’ classes.
Keep up the good work.
James.
Dear James,
Your comments are very kind, I really appreciate them.
I’m sorry, but I don’t know of any sites where you could see the films in China. However, if you could get somebody to download the films for you using software such as Clip Nabber,http://clipnabber.com/, they could send you the films or upload them to a cloud such as dropbox, http://dropbox., you could download them and then put them on a pendrive, and then show them to your students. That’s the only solution I can think of, Ihope it works and that your students can gt to see them. Let me know how it goes.
All the best,
Kieran
Hi Kieran,
An excellent lesson, well put together and an inspired choice of videos! Thanks for sharing these.
David
Hi David,
Thanks a lot for your kind comments. I’m really happy you like the lesson.
All the best,
Kieran
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I think this lesson plan would engage the students and make them want to learn more 🙂
Hi TESOLfan,
Thanks a lot, I’m glad you like dit. if you use it with your students let me know.
All the best,
Kieran
Dear Kieran, every time I come accross your blog I end up wanting to see more. Your ideas are fantastic and inspiring, I’m dying to try this one with my groups! Thanks a lot for sharing!
Best,
Andrés
Dear Juan Andrés,
Thanks a lot for your kind comments, I’m really happy that you find the site and lessons useful. Please let me know how the lessons go with your students.
All the best,
Kieran
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