C1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Peak Performance

Lesson Summary:
This Advanced to Proficient ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video titled Want to reach peak performance? Get a coach and explores the themes of peak performance and coaching. Students develop key language skills through viewing and discussion, practise advanced vocabulary related to professional development, analyse ideas from the video, work with quotations about peak performance, complete a roleplay activity and read an article titled How Feedback Shapes Professional Mastery. They also take part in creative writing, critical thinking and multimodal homework tasks.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the themes of peak performance and coaching.
• To expand vocabulary related to professional development and performance.
• To develop viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To improve writing skills through creative tasks using new vocabulary.
• To improve speaking skills through roleplay and discussion using new vocabulary.
• To develop students’ multimodal composition skills through creative homework tasks.

Lesson Activities:
• Vocabulary preparation and discussion
• Prediction and pre-viewing tasks
• Video viewing and comprehension
• Video analysis and reflection
• Speaking tasks and roleplay
• Reading and analysing the article How Feedback Shapes Professional Mastery
• Writing and critical thinking tasks
• Multimodal homework tasks

Learner Type:
Advanced (C1) to Proficient (C2) learners, mature teens and adults

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary related to professional development
• Vocabulary related to performance and coaching
• Discussion and analytical language

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
• 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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