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ESL Lesson Plans

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.

Be Happy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Be Happy and the theme of happiness. Students write and talk about what makes them happy, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, discuss tips for being happy, analyse a short video, and reflect on the lesson.

Beautiful Moments

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Moments and the theme of important moments in life. Students discuss quotations about moments, watch a short film and recall the moments in the film, write and talk about important moments in their lives, analyse a short film, 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.

Becoming An American Citizen

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Becoming An American Citizen 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, write from the perspective of a character in a video 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.

Blessing Bags For The Homeless

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Blessing Bags for the Homeless and the theme of homelessness. Students learn vocabulary related to homelessness, talk about to help homeless people, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay, write a composition and reflect on the lesson.

Blinky the Robot

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Blinky and the themes of robots and technology. Students learn vocabulary related to robots and technology, talk about robots, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

Blue Bird

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film inspired by a poem and the theme of poetry. Students learn vocabulary related to poetry, talk about poetry, watch a short film, discuss a short film, write a verse of poetry, listen to a poem, read a poem, discuss a poem, and reflect on the lesson.

Bullying

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short poem and video titled To This Day and the theme of bullying. Students learn vocabulary related to bullying, talk about bullying, watch a short video about an anti-bullying project, answer comprehension questions, write a poem or narrative inspired by images in a video, watch a short video inspired by a poem, analyse a short video, and reflect on the lesson.

Bunny New Girl

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Bunny New Girl and the theme of schooldays. Students talk about schooldays, listen to a short film and imagine what is happening in the film, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, write a narrative from the perspective of a character and reflect on the lesson.

Buster the Boxer

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Buster the Boxer and the theme of Christmas. Students learn vocabulary related to Christmas, talk about Christmas, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film and reflect on the lesson.

Caine’s Arcade

This ESL lesson is designed around a beautiful short film called <em>Caine’s Arcade </em>directed by Nirvan Mullick and the themes of childhood games, creativity and imagination. Students talk about childhood games and creativity, watch a short film, discuss a short film, read an article and reflect on the lesson.

Can I help you with anything?

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Can I help you with anything? and the theme of kindness. In the lesson students predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, speak about the short film and kindness, and perform a roleplay.