
A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Touch
This A2-level ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video that explores the theme of touch. 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 a short film titled Touch by Joshua Neale, commissioned by Huawei that explores the theme of touch. Students practise vocabulary related to senses, speak about senses, watch a short film, identify what is happening in each scene, and discuss the film.
Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1)
Learner type: Teens and adults
Time: 60 minutes
Activity: Vocabulary practise, watching a short film, and speaking
Topic: Senses and touch
Language: Vocabulary related to senses and touch, present simple and present continuous tenses
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- 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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I love your lessons and have been using them for years. Thank you! Is your text book available in the U.S.? I have only seen it on Amazon UK.
Hi Gina,
Thanks a lot for commenting and for the kind words; I’m really happy you like the lessons so much. Here’s a link to where you can buy the book in the U.S.
http://www.amazon.com/Film-Action-Teaching-Language-Development/dp/1909783072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452542205&sr=8-1&keywords=film+in+action
I hope you enjoy it 🙂
All the best,
Kieran
I don´t agree with this material. Although the scenes are astonishing, at the end of each video there´s an add ( a phone, Johnnie Walker, etc), which I consider utterly unnecessary while teaching.
Dear Nora,
With regard to your comment “at the end of each video there´s an add (sic)”, I suggest you explore the site more carefully. There are approximately 150 lesson plans, about 10 of which are designed around short films which are adverts, so the vast majority are not ads. In any case, I don’t see anything intrinsically wrong with using ads in the language classroom. The site is completely free, and you are free to use or not use the lessons as you see fit.
Kieran
Nora, what aspect of the ads do you find disturbing? I should think that the value of the lesson plan hugely outbalances the slight inconvenience caused by those ads, ads that we and our students have grown to be able to ignore. Am I right or yes? 🙂
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