Healthy Morning Routines

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled 5 Healthy Morning Routine Habits and the theme of morning routines and healthy habits. Students learn vocabulary related to morning routines and self-care, talk about morning routines, discuss quotations about mornings, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, develop critical thinking skills by exploring issues raised in a short video, perform a roleplay, read an article titled The Science of a Perfect Morning: Why Routine Matters, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, write about what they have learned from reading an article, and reflect on the lesson.

Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Topic: Morning routines and healthy habits

Language: Vocabulary related to morning routines and self-care

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the theme of morning routines and healthy habits
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to morning routines and self-care
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills
• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and guided discussion
• To enhance students’ writing through vocabulary practice and creative tasks
• To practise critical thinking through reflection and post-reading tasks
• To develop students’ visual representing skills through multimodal homework tasks

Watch the short video.