Workplace Happiness

€4,99

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled This is what makes employees happy at work and the theme of workplace happiness and employee satisfaction. Students learn vocabulary related to workplace culture and emotional wellbeing, talk about workplace happiness and employee satisfaction, discuss quotations about workplace happiness, 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, write about what they have learned from reading an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

Language level: Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

To introduce students to the theme of workplace happiness and employee satisfaction
To expand vocabulary related to workplace culture and emotional wellbeing
To develop viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills
To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussions
To practise critical thinking through discussion and reflection
To develop students’ writing skills through creative tasks and essay writing

Topic: Workplace happiness and employee satisfaction

Language: Vocabulary related to workplace culture and emotional wellbeing

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This ESL video lesson plan titled ‘Workplace Happiness’ is designed to help learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing, and visually representing—through guided discussion, roleplay, vocabulary building, and engaging classroom activities.

Transform Your English Classroom with This Film English Multimodal Lesson

This ESL lesson plan is built around a carefully selected short video and designed using the exclusive Multimodal Approach—an innovative methodology that integrates traditional language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) with viewing and representing. This pedagogically rich approach mirrors how communication works in the real world—through a combination of language, image, sound, gesture and spatial design—making the lesson more engaging, relevant and effective.

This lesson plan consists of a complete, ready-to-use package that includes:

A thought-provoking short video
A detailed teacher’s guide with step-by-step instructions
A pre-viewing vocabulary glossary to scaffold understanding
Comprehension, discussion and critical thinking questions
Creative post-viewing tasks such as roleplays, writing prompts and reflective activities
A thematically linked reading text to reinforce language and deepen understanding
A final task encouraging learners to create their own multimodal compositions (e.g. vlogs, posters, infographics or social media posts)

Benefits for Teachers:

Save hours of preparation with a fully developed, flexible lesson plan
Engage students through compelling stories and real-world themes such as emotional intelligence, character, values, empathy, personal development, identity, relationships, global issues and social issues
Build classroom routines that integrate multimodal literacy naturally and progressively
Foster more inclusive and differentiated learning by using varied modes of input
Rely on a trusted methodology backed by educational research and grounded in the theories of Vygotsky, Kress, Mayer and Krashen

Benefits for Learners:

Develop communicative competence and confidence through integrated skill-building
Expand vocabulary and improve listening and reading comprehension through repeated, meaningful exposure
Think critically and creatively while exploring powerful social and emotional themes
Create authentic, personalised multimodal projects that reflect their own voice and ideas
Strengthen emotional intelligence and intercultural awareness through affective engagement with multimodal texts

Whether you’re teaching in a secondary school, university or adult education context, Film English lesson plans offer a dynamic, research-informed pathway to meaningful language learning. Join thousands of teachers worldwide who are transforming their classrooms with the Multimodal Approach and helping their students learn English—and live through English—more fully.

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