How to Eat More Healthily

Lesson Summary:
This ESL video lesson plan is a complete ready-to-use package built around a short video titled My 5 Simple Steps to Eat Healthier. It helps Upper Intermediate to Advanced learners develop language skills while exploring nutrition, healthy eating habits and lifestyle choices through viewing and discussion, critical thinking, roleplay and a substantial follow-up reading.

Learning Objectives:
• Develop understanding of nutrition and healthy eating
• Expand topic-based vocabulary for food and wellbeing
• Improve viewing listening and reading comprehension
• Strengthen writing through reflective and creative tasks
• Build speaking confidence through discussion and roleplay
• Practise visual representing through multimodal homework

Lesson Activities:
• Lead-in discussions on food and health
• Prediction and first viewing of the video
• Guided comprehension and analysis tasks
• Vocabulary development and speaking practice
• Extended roleplay on healthy habits
• Reading and discussion of Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life
• Written reflection and creative follow-up

Learner Type:
Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) mature teens and adults

Language Focus:
• Nutrition and diet
• Healthy eating habits
• Lifestyle and wellbeing
• Food and energy

Transform Your English Classroom with This Film English Multimodal Lesson

This ESL video lesson plan is built around a carefully selected short video and designed using the exclusive Multimodal Approach– an innovative methodology that integrates traditional language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) with viewing – the active process of analysing and interpreting multimodal texts – and representing – creating multimodal texts. This pedagogically rich approach mirrors how communication works in the real world, through a combination of language, image, sound, gesture and spatial design, making the lesson more engaging, relevant and effective.

This ESL video lesson plan plan consists of a complete, ready-to-use package that includes:

• A thought-provoking short video
• A detailed teacher’s guide with step-by-step instructions
• A pre-viewing vocabulary glossary to scaffold understanding
• Comprehension, discussion and critical thinking questions
• Creative post-viewing tasks such as roleplays, writing prompts and reflective activities
• A thematically linked reading text to reinforce language and deepen understanding
• A final task encouraging learners to create their own multimodal compositions (e.g. vlogs, posters, infographics or social media posts)

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
• Promote social-emotional learning (SEL)
• 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
• Create authentic, personalised multimodal projects that reflect their own voice and ideas
• Strengthen emotional intelligence and intercultural awareness through affective engagement with multimodal texts

Whether you’re teaching in a secondary school, university or adult education context, Film English lesson plans offer a dynamic, research-informed pathway to meaningful language learning. Join thousands of teachers worldwide who are transforming their classrooms with the Multimodal Approach and helping their students learn English—and live through English—more fully.

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