A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Wellbeing

Lesson Summary:
This Pre-intermediate (A2) to Intermediate (B1) ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video What is wellbeing? and explores the theme of wellbeing and ways of achieving and maintaining it. Students develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading and writing—through viewing and discussion, vocabulary building, roleplay and critical thinking activities. The lesson also includes a thought-provoking article titled How Architecture Can Improve Wellbeing, encouraging learners to explore how environment influences quality of life. Suitable for mature teens and adults, the lesson provides structured, communicative tasks that promote reflection and meaningful language use.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the concept of wellbeing and its key components.
• To introduce students to ways of achieving and maintaining wellbeing.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to wellbeing and quality of life.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative tasks and use of new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussion using new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.

Lesson Activities:
• Warm-up discussion on wellbeing and quotations.
• Vocabulary exploration and prediction tasks.
• Viewing the short video and answering comprehension questions.
• Analysing key ideas from the video.
• Roleplay and group discussion.
• Reading the article How Architecture Can Improve Wellbeing.
• Article comprehension and vocabulary practice.
• Reflective writing and class feedback.

Learner Type:
Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1), mature teens and adults.

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary related to wellbeing and quality of life
• Expressing opinions and giving reasons
• Discussing habits and lifestyle choices
• Describing environments and design

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.