The Health Benefits of Dreaming

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Surprising Health Benefits of Dreaming | Sleeping with Science and the theme of dreaming and its connection to mental and emotional health. Students learn vocabulary related to dreaming and psychological well-being, discuss quotations about dreaming, talk about dreaming and its connection to mental and emotional health, 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 Healing in Your Sleep: How Dreams Help Mental Health, answer comprehension questions, write about what they have learned from reading an article, and reflect on the lesson.

Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Topic: Dreaming and its connection to mental and emotional health

Language: Vocabulary related to dreaming and psychological well-being

Time: 90–120 minutes

Objectives:

• To introduce students to the concept of dreaming and its connection to mental and emotional health.
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to dreaming and psychological well-being.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and guided discussions using new vocabulary.
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative and reflective tasks.
• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks.

Watch the short video.