Sustainable Design
This ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan is built around the short film Inside Dubai’s Push for Sustainable Design and explores the themes of sustainability and sustainable design. Designed for Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) learners, it provides a complete 90–120 minute lesson package for mature teens and adults. Students expand vocabulary related to sustainability, recycling and innovation while developing viewing, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Through discussion, quotation analysis, prediction, comprehension tasks, roleplay and critical reflection, learners explore how design can address environmental challenges. The lesson also includes an extended reading text titled Plastic Reimagined: Creative Solutions for a Sustainable World, enabling deeper engagement with the topic and promoting critical thinking and multimodal learning.