Reimagine Productivity

€4,99

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Productivity Myth: Why you’ll never ‘get on top of everything’ and the themes of productivity and reimagined productivity. Students learn vocabulary related to productivity, well-being and work habits, talk about productivity, 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 Why You Should Do Less to Achieve More, 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: Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2)

Learner type: Mature teens and adults

Topic: Productivity and reimagined productivity

Objectives:

To introduce students to the concept and themes of productivity and reimagined productivity.
To expand vocabulary related to productivity, well-being and work habits.
To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
To develop students’ writing skills through reflective and creative tasks using new vocabulary.
To improve students’ speaking skills through structured discussion and roleplay using new vocabulary.
To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.
To practise critical thinking through reflection and discussion.

Language: Vocabulary related to productivity, well-being and work habits

Time: 90–120 minutes

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Lesson Summary:
This ESL video lesson plan is a complete, ready-to-use resource based on the short video The Productivity Myth: Why you’ll never ‘get on top of everything’. It explores the themes of productivity and reimagined productivity, helping learners develop advanced skills through vocabulary building, viewing, discussion and creative activities. Suitable for C1–C2 learners, it offers engaging tasks that deepen understanding and support confident communication.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the concepts of productivity and reimagined productivity
• To build vocabulary related to productivity, well-being and work habits
• To develop viewing, listening and reading skills
• To improve writing through reflective and creative tasks
• To enhance speaking through discussion and roleplay
• To support multimodal composition skills
• To strengthen critical thinking

Lesson Activities:
• Vocabulary activation tasks
• Pre-viewing prediction tasks
• Viewing and comprehension work
• Video analysis and critical reflection
• Structured speaking tasks
• Guided writing activities
• Roleplay practice
• Article reading and discussion
• Reflection and follow-up tasks

Learner Type:
Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2) mature teens and adults

Language Focus:
• Productivity vocabulary
• Well-being and work habit language
• C1–C2 lexical development

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
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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