A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Our Relationship with Nature

Lesson Summary:
This A2–B1 ESL video lesson plan is built around the short film Our Relationship with Nature and explores how humans connect with and affect the natural world. Learners develop key language skills through viewing, discussion and creative activities, including a follow-up article titled How We Can Learn to Respect the Earth.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduce learners to the theme of our relationship with nature

• Expand vocabulary linked to nature and human responsibility

• Develop viewing, listening and reading comprehension

• Build writing skills through creative tasks and new lexis

• Improve speaking through discussion and roleplay

• Strengthen critical thinking and reflection

• Improve visual representing through multimodal homework tasks

Lesson Activities:

• Visual lead-in and quotation discussion

• Pre-viewing prediction

• Video viewing with guided questions

• Analysis of key messages

• Vocabulary development

• Roleplay on environmental choices

• Reading and discussing the follow-up article

• Reflective writing task

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.