B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Setting Healthy Boundaries

Lesson Summary:
This ESL video lesson plan explores the themes of friendship and setting healthy boundaries through a short video. Aimed at Intermediate to Upper Intermediate learners, it helps students develop vocabulary, communication strategies and confidence as they analyse video content, discuss ideas and reflect on their own experiences.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the themes of friendship and setting healthy boundaries.
• To expand vocabulary related to relationships and effective communication.
• To develop students’ viewing listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To improve students’ writing skills through creative tasks and use of new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussion and use of new vocabulary.
• To practise critical thinking through discussion and reflection.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.

Lesson Activities:
• Vocabulary introduction.
• Pre-viewing discussion tasks.
• Work with quotations about friendship.
• Video prediction.
• Viewing and comprehension.
• Video analysis and reflective writing.
• Roleplay on setting boundaries.
• Reading and discussing How to Build Mutual Respect in Friendships.
• Final reflection and personal response.

Learner Type:
Mature teens and adults, B1–B2.

Language Focus:
Vocabulary connected to friendship, relationships and communication.

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

Watch the short video.

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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.