B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Why Humiliation Exists

Lesson Summary:
This Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video that explores humiliation and its social function. Learners examine why humiliation exists, how it operates in society and how public shame can be challenged. Through viewing, discussion and creative activities, students develop language skills, critical thinking and emotional awareness, culminating in reading and responding to the article Breaking the Cycle of Public Shame.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the concept of humiliation and its social function.
• To explore evolutionary and cultural reasons for humiliation.
• To expand vocabulary related to identity, power and social behaviour.
• To develop viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To strengthen writing skills through reflective and argumentative tasks.
• To improve speaking skills through discussion and roleplay.
• To develop visual representing skills through multimodal tasks.

Lesson Activities:
• Warm-up discussion and quotation analysis.
• Pre-viewing prediction tasks.
• Video viewing with comprehension activities.
• Language and idea analysis.
• Structured roleplay.
• Reading an extended article on public shame.
• Post-reading discussion and writing.
• Reflection on learning outcomes.

Learner Type:
Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) mature teens and adults.

Language Focus:
• Identity and self-image
• Power and social behaviour
• Humiliation and public shame

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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