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Active Citizens

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled What is Active Citizens? and the theme of citizenship. Students learn vocabulary related to citizenship, talk about citizenship, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, read an article and reflect on the lesson.

Adult Literacy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Adult Literacy and the theme of literacy. Students learn vocabulary related to literacy, talk about literacy, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

Albert and Aidan Sykes

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Albert and Aidan Sykes, and the themes of family and racism. In the lesson students do a dictation, predict the answer to questions, listen to an interview, answer comprehension questions, watch two short videos, and speak about the videos.

Ali’s Story

This ESL lesson plan is designed around an animated short film and the theme of refugees. Students practise vocabulary related to refugees, speak about refugees, watch a short film, retell a story, answer comprehension questions, talk about a short film, empathise with refugee children, reflect on the lesson and write an account of a refugee child fleeing their country.

Alike

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Alike. In the lesson students practise using alike, adjectives to describe character and routines, watch a short film, predict how the film will end and speak about the film.

All That We Share

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled All That We Share by Danish TV channel TV2Danmark. In the lesson students talk about the communities they belong to, find out what they share with their classmates, watch and discuss a video about what a community shares.

Alma

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Alma and the theme of character. Students learn vocabulary related to character, talk about their own character, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film, write a sequel to a short film and reflect on the lesson.

Alternative Math

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Alternative Math by David Maddox and Malcolm Morrison, and the themes of maths and alternative facts. Students learn vocabulary related to maths, talk about maths, watch a short film and answer comprehension questions, predict the end of a story and speak about the film.

Amar

This ESL lesson is designed around a short film Amar by Andrew Hinton which focuses on a single day in the life of a fourteen-year-old Indian boy. Students practise talking about their present and past daily routines, and compare their routines with those of the boy featured in the film.

Anger

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Why anger is overrated and the theme of anger. Students learn vocabulary related to anger, talk about anger, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

Are You Living an Insta Lie?

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Are You Living an Insta Lie? and the theme of social media. Students learn vocabulary related to social media, talk about Instagram, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

Barcelona

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a time-lapse short film about Barcelona by Rob Whitworth and the theme of sightseeing. Students learn sightseeing vocabulary, talk about sightseeing, describe a city, watch a short video, discuss a short video, plan a sightseeing weekend, plan a video about their city and reflect on the lesson.

Beauty Patch

This ESL lesson is designed around a short film titled Beauty Patch commissioned by Dove and the theme of beauty. Students practise using abstract nouns, describe their perfect partner, discuss beauty, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, read and discuss tweets on a short film, discuss a short film and reflect on the lesson.

Being a Good Listener

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Being a Good Listener and the themes of listening and paralinguistics. Students learn vocabulary related to being a good listener and paralinguistics, talk about being a good listener and paralinguistics, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short video, perform two roleplays and reflect on the lesson.

Being Kind

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Kindness Boomerang and the theme of kindness. Students learn vocabulary related to kindness, talk about kindness, read and discuss quotations about kindness, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film, write kind things about their classmates and reflect on the lesson.

Black Button

This ESL lesson is designed around a short film called The Black Button and the theme of moral dilemmas. Students practise reading, reading and listening.