The Science of Stress
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This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Science of Stress: How Does Stress Affect Our Brains and Bodies? and the themes of stress and neuroscience. Students learn vocabulary related to stress and neuroscience, discuss quotations about stress, talk about stress, 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, read an article titled How Stress Reshapes the Brain—and How to Rebuild It, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, write about what they have learned from reading an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.
Language level: Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2)
Learner type: Mature teens and adults
Topic: Stress and neuroscience
Language: Vocabulary related to stress and neuroscience
Time: 90–120 minutes
Objectives:
- To introduce students to the psychological and physiological aspects of stress
- To expand vocabulary related to stress and neuroscience
- To develop viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills
- To develop students’ writing skills through creative and structured tasks
- To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussion
- To practise critical thinking through discussion and reflection
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This ESL video lesson plan titled ‘The Science of Stress’ is designed to help learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing, and visually representing—through guided discussion, roleplay, vocabulary building, and engaging classroom activities.
Transform Your English Classroom with This Film English Multimodal Lesson
This ESL 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 and representing. 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 lesson 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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