Short-Term Parent

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Short-Term Parent and the themes of parenting and interim parenting. Students learn vocabulary related to parenting and childcare, talk about parenting and childcare, 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 The Eight Qualities Needed to Be an Interim Parent, 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: Pre-intermediate (A2) – Intermediate (B1)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Topic: Parenting and interim parenting

Language: Vocabulary related to parenting and childcare

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the concept of interim parenting
• To foster discussion on family roles and responsibilities.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to parenting and childcare.
• To develop students’ listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through structured roleplay and discussion.
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative and reflective tasks using new vocabulary.
• To enhance students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition tasks.

Watch the short video.