Short film

This ESL lesson is designed around a beautiful short film by Matt Morris about Johnny Barnes, an 88-year-old man who dedicates his life to making people happy. Students practise speaking, listening and writing.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a Christmas short film and the theme of Christmas. Students learn vocabulary related to Christmas, talk about Christmas, read a description of a short film, visualise a short film, watch a short film, analyse a short film, write from the perspective of a character in a short film and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled My Favourite Animal and the theme of animals. Students learn vocabulary related to animals, write and talk about their favourite animals, watch a short film, make notes about a short film, analyse a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film called My Shoes, and the themes of envy and empathy. Students write a story, watch a short film, talk about empathy and envy, discuss comments on a YouTube video, and practise idiomatic expressions.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled New Boy and the theme of bullying. Students learn vocabulary related to bullying, talk about bullying, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Not Enough and the theme of dreams and ambitions. Students talk about the jobs they want or wanted to do, write sentences with ‘not + adjective + enough’, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film with the sound off and write the dialogue, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film and the themes of the Pay It Forward movement and kindness. Students learn vocabulary related to kindness, talk about the Pay It Forward movement and kindness, watch a short film, discuss a short film, read an article, answer comprehension questions, discuss quotations about kindness, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Penelope in the Treehouse and the theme of families. In the lesson students watch but don’t hear the start of a short film, decide what is happening and what the characters are saying, predict the rest of the story and write a story.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film and the theme of perseverance. Students talk about perseverance, come up with vocabulary to describe physical appearance, describe a person in a photo, predict the content of a short film, write a narrative, watch a short film, analyse a short film, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL video lesson plan titled ‘Perspective’ 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.   Transform Your English Classroom with This Film English Multimodal Lesson This ESL lesson plan is built around a carefully selected short video […]

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Pip and the themes of disability and service dogs. In the lesson, students talk about service dogs and disability, predict what will happen in a short film, and watch and discuss a short film.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Post-it Love and the theme of romantic partners. Students talk about romantic partners, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, come up with creative uses of Post-it notes and reflect on the lesson.

An ESL lesson plan designed around a short film titled Procrastination by John Kelly and the theme of procrastination. Students learn vocabulary related to procrastination, talk about procrastination, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film, read an article, write tips to avoid procrastination and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Strangers and the theme of racism. Students predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, write a narrative, analyse a short film, talk about racism and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film by John X. Carey and the theme of beauty. Students talk about beauty, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, read and discuss an article about a short film, discuss a short film and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around an animated short film and the theme of refugees. Students practise vocabulary related to refugees, speak about refugees, watch a short film, retell a story, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, empathise with a refugee child, reflect on the lesson and write an account of a refugee child fleeing their country.