How to Feel Confident

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Feel Confident and the theme of self-confidence and how it can be developed over time. Students learn vocabulary related to confidence, mindset and personal growth, talk about self-confidence and how it can be developed, discuss quotations about self-confidence, 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 From Fear to Fierce: Training Your Confidence Muscle, 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: Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2)

Learner type: Mature teens and adults

Topic: Self-confidence and how it can be developed over time

Language: Vocabulary related to confidence, mindset and personal growth

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the concept of self-confidence and how it can be developed over time.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to confidence, mindset and personal growth.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussion using new vocabulary.
• To develop students’ writing skills through reflection and vocabulary-based tasks.
• To enhance students’ visual representation skills through multimodal homework creation.

Watch the short video.