Wellbeing

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.

Lesson Summary:
This complete, ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video What is wellbeing? and explores the theme of wellbeing and ways of achieving and maintaining it. Designed for Pre-intermediate (A2) to Intermediate (B1) learners, the lesson helps students expand vocabulary related to wellbeing and quality of life while developing viewing, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Through guided discussion, video prediction, comprehension tasks, critical thinking activities, roleplay and a follow-up article titled How Architecture Can Improve Wellbeing, learners explore how personal habits and environments influence wellbeing. This engaging 90–120 minute lesson is ideal for mature teens and adults and promotes meaningful communication and reflection.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the concept of wellbeing and its key components.
• To introduce students to ways of achieving and maintaining wellbeing.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to wellbeing and quality of life.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative tasks and use of new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussion using new vocabulary.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.

Lesson Activities:
• Introduction to the theme of wellbeing through discussion and quotations.
• Vocabulary development related to wellbeing and quality of life.
• Prediction task before watching the short video.
• Viewing and comprehension questions.
• Video analysis and critical thinking discussion.
• Roleplay on improving wellbeing through design and daily habits.
• Reading the article How Architecture Can Improve Wellbeing.
• Article comprehension, discussion and reflective writing.

Learner Type:
Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1), mature teens and adults.

Language Focus:
• Wellbeing and quality of life vocabulary
• Personal development and lifestyle habits
• Architecture and environment
• Discussion and opinion language

Watch the short video.