B1 ESL Lesson Plan: How Friendship Affects Your Brain

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How friendship affects your brain and the themes of friendship and its impact on the brain. Students learn vocabulary related to friendship and psychology, talk about friendship, discuss quotations about friendship, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, develop critical thinking skills by exploring issues raised in a short video, read an article, answer comprehension questions, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To explore the significance of friendship and its impact on the brain
• To improve viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills
• To encourage discussion and roleplay to develop speaking fluency
• To improve critical thinking skills
• To expand vocabulary related to psychology and relationships
• To reflect on the value of interpersonal relationships

Topic: Friendship and its impact on the brain

Language: Vocabulary related to friendship and psychology

Watch the short video.

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