B1 Intermediate

This ESL lesson is designed around a short film by Meghann Artes and the theme of dating. In the lesson students talk about meeting a partner and dating, watch a short film, and read and discuss speed-dating questions.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Stand Up and the themes of discrimination and taking a stand against discrimination. Students learn vocabulary related to discrimination, work on phrasal verbs that include ‘stand up’, talk about discrimination, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video about the cityscape artist Stephen Wiltshire. Students describe the character of a person they know, describe the character of a person in a photo, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This complete ESL video lesson plan, Meet the Street Artist Transforming Dubai, engages learners with the theme of street art and street artists. Designed for B1–B2 students, it includes vocabulary building, comprehension tasks, roleplay, article reading, and creative follow-up activities. Perfect for teachers who want a ready-to-use resource that develops language and critical thinking skills.

This ESL lesson is designed around a short video titled Success, and the theme of the nature of success. Students talk about the nature of success, watch a short film and reflect on their own successes.

This ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan is built around the short film Inside Dubai’s Push for Sustainable Design and explores the themes of sustainability and sustainable design. Designed for Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) learners, it provides a complete 90–120 minute lesson package for mature teens and adults. Students expand vocabulary related to sustainability, recycling and innovation while developing viewing, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Through discussion, quotation analysis, prediction, comprehension tasks, roleplay and critical reflection, learners explore how design can address environmental challenges. The lesson also includes an extended reading text titled Plastic Reimagined: Creative Solutions for a Sustainable World, enabling deeper engagement with the topic and promoting critical thinking and multimodal learning.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Symmetry and the theme of binomials. Students work on antonyms and collocations, watch a short film and identify antonyms and collocations, analyse a short film, complete binomial pairs, write a dialogue and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Table 7 and the themes of arguments and forgiveness. Students learn vocabulary and expressions related to arguments and forgiveness, talk about arguing, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film, perform an argument roleplay, read and discuss quotations about forgiveness and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Taking Flight and the themes of childhood games, grandparents and grandchildren. Students watch a short film, predict a story, retell a story, discuss the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, and discuss a short film.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film for a song titled Two Fingers and the theme of teenage problems. Students learn vocabulary related to teenage problems, talk about teenage problems, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film without sound, write down the story the film tells and the thoughts of the protagonist, watch a short film with sound and write down the song lyrics, analyse a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Television inspired by Todd Alcott’s poem of the same name and the theme of television. Students learn vocabulary related to television, talk about television, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, discuss the meaning of a poem and short video, analyse a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Say Thank You and the themes of being thankful and organ donation. Students write about being thankful, talk about being thankful, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Simple Idea that Could Transform City Life and the themes of cities and the 15-minute city. Students learn vocabulary related to cities, talk about cities, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, talk about the 15-minute city, watch a second video about the 15-minute city and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film called The Adventures of a Cardboard Box in which a small boy finds myriad of uses for a cardboard box and the theme of creativity. Students do activities to encourage creativity, watch a short film, talk about a short film and discuss creativity.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled The Arrival. Students talk about decision-making, watch a short film, write a monologue, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan  is a complete, ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan for B1–B2 learners on appreciating small things and slowing down. It helps students develop vocabulary, viewing and reading comprehension, reflective writing, discussion skills and creative multimodal expression.