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Character Strengths

This complete ESL video lesson plan for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) learners explores the theme of character strengths and how they influence happiness and well-being. It includes engaging classroom activities where students predict, watch and analyse a short video, discuss quotations, practise key vocabulary, perform a roleplay, and read an article titled How to Discover and Develop Your Signature Strengths. It’s ideal for mature teens and adults who want to develop language fluency, psychological insight, and self-awareness through reflective communication.

Cognitive Bias

This Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) ESL video lesson plan is a complete, ready-to-use resource built around a thought-provoking video on cognitive biases and how they influence thinking and behaviour. It helps learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading and writing—through engaging activities, critical discussion, roleplay and vocabulary building.

Creating Magical Experiences

This complete ESL video lesson plan, designed for Advanced (C1) to Proficient (C2) learners, explores Engineering Magical Experiences through the themes of transcendence and the power of attention. The package equips teachers with ready-to-use resources for developing vocabulary, critical thinking, roleplay, and multimodal tasks.

Creativity

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How limits can boost your creativity and the themes of creativity and how constraints can boost creativity. Students learn vocabulary related to creativity, talk about creativity, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, takes notes on a video, analyse a short video, write about creativity, and reflect on the lesson.

Critical Thinking

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Five Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking and the theme of critical thinking. Students learn vocabulary related to critical thinking, talk about language learning, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, talk about critical thinking skills, and reflect on the lesson.

Dads

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled A Storybook Surprise and the themes of family and fathers. Students learn vocabulary related to family, talk about family and fathers, watch a short video, predict the end of a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write from the perspective of a person in a short video and reflect on the lesson.

Digital Privacy

This ESL video lesson plan explores digital privacy in everyday online life through a short, thought-provoking video and a follow-up article. Designed for Upper Intermediate to Advanced learners, it helps students understand how personal information is shared online, develop critical awareness of surveillance and practise key language skills through discussion, roleplay, reading and writing tasks.

Diverse Thinking

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Power of Diverse Thinking and the theme of cognitive diversity. Students talk about cognitive diversity, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, read an article, discuss an article, and reflect on the lesson.

Dyslexia

This complete ESL video lesson plan, based on Dyslexia Isn’t Just About Having Difficulty with Reading and Spelling, explores neurodiversity, dyslexia, and the lived experiences of people with dyslexia. Designed for B2–C1 learners, it develops vocabulary, empathy, and communication through viewing, discussion, and creative activities.

Effective Communication

This B1–B2 ESL video lesson plan is built around a compelling video titled Alan Alda’s 3 Key Ways to Making Yourself Understood and the theme of effective communication. It guides learners through vocabulary building, video-based comprehension, article reading, critical thinking, and structured discussions to explore how to communicate with clarity and impact. Students engage with […]

Effective Language Learning Habits

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled 10 Language Learning Habits of a Hyperpolyglot and the themes of language learning and polyglots. Students learn vocabulary related to language learning, talk about language learning, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, talk about the language learning tips, analyse a short video, and reflect on the lesson.

Emotional Communication

This Upper Intermediate to Advanced ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video titled The Importance of Expressing Our Needs and explores emotional communication and expressing emotions clearly and respectfully. Designed for adult learners, the lesson develops vocabulary for emotional self-expression, strengthens viewing and reading comprehension, and encourages thoughtful discussion, roleplay and reflection. The lesson also includes an in-depth follow-up article, Why Timing Matters in Emotional Honesty, helping learners deepen their understanding of emotional honesty and timing in relationships.

Emotional Intelligence

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace and the themes of effective leadership and emotional intelligence. Students learn vocabulary related to effective leadership and emotional intelligence, talk about effective leadership and emotional intelligence, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

Emotional Maturity

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled What Is It to Be Emotionally Mature and the theme of emotional maturity. Students learn vocabulary related to emotional maturity, talk about emotionally mature people, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, talk about the most important characteristics of emotional maturity, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

Emotionally Intelligent People

Lesson Summary:This Advanced (C1)–Proficient (C2) ESL video lesson plan explores emotional intelligence and the characteristics of emotionally intelligent people through a thought-provoking short video. Designed as a complete, ready-to-use package, it helps teachers deliver engaging, communicative lessons that develop key language skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students analyse real-world concepts, build topic-specific vocabulary […]

Emotions

This ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video How Our Expectations Shape What We See, Hear and Feel and explores emotions as constructed experiences. Designed for Upper Intermediate to Advanced learners, it develops learners’ understanding of how emotions are shaped by past experiences and expectations through video analysis, discussion, roleplay and extended reading.

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