How to Change Your Personality

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Change Your Personality and the theme of personality and personality change. Students learn vocabulary related to personality, emotions and behaviour, talk about personality and personality change, 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, perform a roleplay, read an article titled Small Habits, Big Changes: How to Rewire Your Behaviour One Step at a Time, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, write about what they have learned from reading an article, and reflect on the lesson.

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

Learner type: Mature teens and adults

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the theme of personality and personality change
• To expand vocabulary related to personality, emotions and behaviour
• To develop students’ listening, viewing and reading comprehension skills
• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay, discussion and use of new vocabulary
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative and reflective tasks using new vocabulary
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks

Topic: Personality and personality change

Language: Vocabulary related to personality, emotions and behaviour

Watch the short video.