A2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Food Waste Rescue

Lesson Summary:
This A2–B1 ESL video lesson plan is built around a short video titled Food Waste Rescue Squad and explores the theme of food waste and its environmental and social impact. It is designed to help students develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing—through guided discussion, video analysis, roleplay and creative activities. Learners also read the article Simple Ways to Waste Less and Share More, reflect on the importance of food rescue, and consider their own role in reducing waste and helping others.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the theme of food waste and its environmental and social impact
• To explore the concept of food waste rescue and redistribution
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to food, sustainability and social action
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills
• To improve students’ speaking and writing through roleplay, discussion and creative tasks
• To enhance students’ multimodal communication skills through visual and digital tasks

Lesson Activities:
• Brainstorm and discuss food waste and its effects
• Watch and analyse the short video Food Waste Rescue Squad
• Learn vocabulary related to sustainability and social action
• Answer comprehension and critical thinking questions
• Read and discuss the article Simple Ways to Waste Less and Share More
• Perform a roleplay about food rescue and redistribution
• Write creatively and reflect on the lesson’s themes

Learner Type:
Pre-intermediate (A2) to Intermediate (B1); mature teens and adults

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary related to food, sustainability and social action
• Language for expressing opinions and reflecting on social issues

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
• 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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