How to Deal with Envious Friends

This engaging ESL video lesson plan is based on the thought-provoking video 3 Ways to Deal with Envious Friends and explores the theme of envy and how it impacts friendships. Suitable for Advanced (C1) to Proficient (C2) learners, the lesson helps students develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing, and visually representing—through vocabulary-building exercises, video-based analysis, structured discussions, a guided roleplay, and critical reflection tasks.

The lesson includes a supplementary reading activity based on the article How to Turn Envy into Empathy, encouraging deeper exploration of emotional intelligence and social awareness.

Language level: Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2)

Learner type: Mature teens and adults

Topic: Envy in friendships

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the concept of envy in friendships
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to emotions, social relationships and self-awareness
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills
• To improve students’ speaking skills through discussions and structured roleplay using target vocabulary
• To develop students’ writing skills through reflective and creative activities using new vocabulary
• To enhance visual representing skills through multimodal homework composition tasks

Language: Vocabulary related to emotions, social relationships and self-awareness

Time: 90–120 minutes

Watch the short video.