How to Create Stronger Professional Connections

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled 5 ways to create stronger connections and the theme of making strong professional interpersonal relationships. Students learn vocabulary on the topic of making strong connections, talk about connections and forming strong connections, discuss quotations about connection, 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, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

Language level: Upper Intermediate (B2) – Advanced (C1)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To foster a deeper understanding of authentic interpersonal relationships.
• To expand students’ vocabulary on the topic of making strong connections.
• To improve students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To enhance students’ speaking fluency through discussions and roleplay.
• To develop writing skills through reflective and creative tasks.

Topic: Making strong connections

Language: Academic and professional vocabulary on the topic of making strong connections

Watch the short video.