Lesson Plans

This complete ESL video lesson plan helps students explore friendship and setting healthy boundaries through viewing, discussion and creative tasks. Designed for Intermediate to Upper Intermediate learners, it develops vocabulary, communication skills and confidence in expressing needs in relationships.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Diving with Sharks and the themes of sharks and shark diving. Students learn vocabulary related to diving, sharks and describing character, read an article about sharks, talk about the qualities needed to be a shark diver, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a beautifully animated short film by artist Celia Bullwinkel titled Sidewalk that portrays a woman’s journey through the passage of time. In the lesson talk about the various stages of life and how we change physically and emotionally, watch a short film and describe how a woman changes through the course of her life.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Sight by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo, and the themes of technology and augmented reality. Students learn vocabulary related to gadgets and apps, talk about technology and augmented reality, watch a short film and video, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film and video and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled All You Need Right Now Is a Simplified Living | Voluntary Simplicity Is Power and the themes of simplicity and voluntary simplicity. Students learn vocabulary related to minimalism, consumerism and well-being, talk about simplicity and voluntary simplicity, discuss quotations about simplicity, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, devel…

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Sinking Feeling and the themes of anxiety, depression and young suicide. Students talk about when they feel anxious and nervous, watch a short film, predict the ending of a short film, answer comprehension questions, write the lyrics of a song in a short film, discuss a short film, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.