C1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Thoughtful Leadership

Lesson Summary:
This Advanced (C1)–Proficient (C2) ESL video lesson plan is built around a compelling short video that explores thoughtful leadership and value-driven decision-making. Through viewing, discussion and creative activities, learners examine how leadership values influence organisational culture while developing advanced language skills and critical thinking.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the concept of leadership and how leaders shape organisational culture.
• To introduce students to the concept of thoughtful leadership and value-driven decision-making.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to leadership, conflict and professional values.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills through guided tasks.
• To develop students’ writing skills through reflective and analytical tasks using new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through structured discussions and roleplay using new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.
• To practise critical thinking through discussion and reflection on leadership choices and values.

Lesson Activities:
• Pre-viewing discussion on leadership and thoughtful leadership.
• Quotation analysis and prediction tasks.
• Guided viewing of a short video with comprehension questions.
• Video analysis and reflective writing tasks.
• Extended reading on leadership values and organisational culture.
• Post-reading discussion and analytical writing.
• Roleplay focused on leadership decision-making.

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

Language Focus:
• Leadership and thoughtful leadership
• Organisational culture
• Conflict and ethical decision-making
• Professional values

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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