Emotional Intelligence

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video How Best to Manage Your Moods and the themes of moods and how to manage moods. Students learn vocabulary related to moods, talk about moods and how to manage moods, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, write about a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Overcoming Negative Thought Patterns to Find Joy and the themes of joy and overcoming negative thought patterns. Students learn vocabulary related to joy and overcoming negative thought patterns, talk about joy and overcoming negative thought patterns, discuss quotations about joy, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, develop critical thinking skills by exploring issues raised in a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to overcome your mistakes and the themes of mistakes and how to learn from your mistakes. Students learn vocabulary related to mistakes and how to learn from your mistakes, talk about mistakes and how to learn from your mistakes, discuss quotations about mistakes, 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.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The number 1 cause of burnout is not what you think and the theme of burnout. Students learn vocabulary related to burnout, talk about burnout, discuss quotations about burnout, 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, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Five simple strategies to sharpen your critical thinking and the themes of critical thinking and how to sharpen your critical thinking. Students learn vocabulary related to critical thinking, talk about critical thinking and how to sharpen your critical thinking, discuss quotations about critical thinking, 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, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Spot the Loveliest People in the World and the theme of lovely people. Students learn vocabulary related to personality traits, talk about personality traits and lovely people, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, make viewing notes, analyse a short video, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Overthinking the hell out of overthinking and the themes of overthinking, its effects on mental health and how to overcome it. Students learn vocabulary related to psychology and emotions, discuss quotations about overthinking, talk about overthinking, its effects on mental health and how to overcome it, 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.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Stop Worrying? and the theme of worrying. Students learn vocabulary related to worrying, talk about worrying, 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 a short video, learn expressions for reassuring a person, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL video lesson plan for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) learners explores self-doubt, impostor syndrome and their impact. Students expand vocabulary, develop critical thinking, practise comprehension, and engage in creative speaking and writing tasks.

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short video titled We’re Lonelier than Ever — And There’s One Big Reason and the theme of real-life versus digital friendship. Students learn vocabulary related to character, human connection and social media, discuss quotations about friendship, talk about friendship, 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 From Likes to Love: Can Online Relationships Thrive?, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, write about what they have learned from reading an article, and reflect on the lesson.

This engaging ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video How Jealousy Distorts Your Thinking and explores the theme of jealousy and how it impacts our thoughts and behaviour. Aimed at Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) level students, the lesson includes vocabulary-building tasks, video analysis, guided discussions, article-based reading activities, roleplay, and reflective writing.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video by Story Corps in which a young man explains what he did when he was mugged at knifepoint. In the lesson students talk about an imaginary situation, listen to a story, watch a video, speak, and write an account of an incident from another person’s perspective.

This ESL lesson is designed around a short film by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Thought Bubble, and the theme of kindness. Students revise adjectives to describe character, talk about positive qualities, watch a short video, answer comprehension question, discuss a short video and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a Christmas advert titled ‘Kindness. The Greatest Gift.’ and the themes of anxiety and kindness. Students learn vocabulary related to anxiety, talk about anxiety, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film, perform a roleplay, talk about kindness and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video and the theme of appreciation. Students learn vocabulary related to gratitude and appreciation, write sentences about what they are grateful for, talk about what they are grateful for, write sentences about a teacher they are grateful to, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, write a letter of appreciation and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Loneliness and the Power of Connection and the themes of loneliness and connection. Students learn vocabulary related to loneliness and connection, talk about loneliness and connection, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, discuss quotations from a short video, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video and reflect on the lesson.