How To Accept Your Past Self

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This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Reconcile and Accept Your Past Self and the theme of self-acceptance and personal growth. Students learn vocabulary related to identity, reflection and self-compassion, talk about self-acceptance and personal growth, discuss quotations about self-acceptance and personal growth, 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, read an article titled How to Forgive Yourself and Move Forward, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, write about what they have learned from reading an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Topic: Self-acceptance and personal growth

Language: Vocabulary related to identity, reflection and self-compassion

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

To introduce students to the concept of self-acceptance and personal growth
To expand vocabulary related to identity, reflection and self-compassion
To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills
To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussion activities using new vocabulary
To develop students’ writing skills through creative tasks using vocabulary from the lesson
To practise visual representation through multimodal homework tasks

Watch the short video.