B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Emotions

Lesson Summary:
This Upper Intermediate to Advanced ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video that explores emotions as constructed experiences shaped by expectations and past learning. Learners engage with ideas about emotional awareness through guided viewing, discussion, roleplay and an extended reading text that deepens understanding of emotional habits and communication.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to emotions as constructed experiences.
• To explore how emotional responses are shaped by past experiences.
• To expand vocabulary connected to emotions and relationships.
• To develop viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To develop writing skills through reflective and analytical tasks.
• To improve speaking skills through discussion and roleplay.
• To develop visual representing skills through multimodal homework tasks.
• To practise critical thinking through reflection on emotional communication.

Lesson Activities:
• Pre-viewing discussion on emotions and expectations.
• Predicting and analysing a short video.
• Answering comprehension and interpretation questions.
• Discussing quotations about emotions.
• Roleplay focused on emotional misunderstandings.
• Reading an in-depth article on emotional habits.
• Writing reflective responses and personal analyses.

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

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary related to emotions
• Language of relationships and interpretation
• Reflective and analytical language

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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