How To Make Smart Decisions

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to make smart decisions more easily and the themes of decision-making and how to make smart decisions. Students learn vocabulary related to decision-making, talk about decision-making and how to make smart decisions, discuss quotations about decision-making, 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: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To explore strategies for making smart decisions.
• To develop students’ vocabulary related to decision-making.
• To enhance students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To encourage discussion and critical thinking on the topic.
• To practise decision-making through roleplay activities.

Topic: Decision-making and how to make smart decisions

Watch the short video.