Emotional Intelligence

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The 17 Secrets to a Successful Relationship and the theme of successful relationships. Students learn abstract nouns to describe character and vocabulary related to relationships, talk about romantic partners and the secrets to a successful relationship, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Self-Care Planning: Working Towards Wellbeing and the themes of self-care and self-care planning. Students learn vocabulary related to wellbeing and emotional health, discuss quotations about self-care, talk about self-care and self-care planning, 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, 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 Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) ESL video lesson plan is a complete, ready-to-use package built around the engaging video Do Less, Become Happier. It explores the powerful themes of compassion and self-compassion, helping learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing—through guided discussion, roleplay, vocabulary building and creative classroom activities.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Self-Esteem and the theme of self-esteem. Students learn vocabulary related to self-esteem, talk about self-esteem, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This complete ESL video lesson plan helps students explore friendship and setting healthy boundaries through viewing, discussion and creative tasks. Designed for Intermediate to Upper Intermediate learners, it develops vocabulary, communication skills and confidence in expressing needs in relationships.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film and the theme of simple pleasures. Students talk about simple pleasures, watch a short film and write down the simple pleasures shown in the film, talk about the simple pleasures shown in a short film, analyse a short film, discuss questions about small pleasures and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a song and short video titled Come into My Arms and the theme of slowing down. Students learn vocabulary related to slowing down, talk about how they slow down, answer and discuss a questionnaire about slowing down, make recommendations about how to slow down, listen to a song about slowing down and imagine the images in the video of the song, watch a short video, analyse a short video, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled The Small Pleasures and the theme of small pleasures and happiness. Students use vocabulary related to small pleasures, talk about small pleasures and happiness, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short video, write cleft sentences about their small pleasures, read and discuss quotations about small pleasures and happiness, write a composition about happiness and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL video lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Awe and the theme of awe and its impact on human perception and emotion. Students learn vocabulary related to awe, attention and perception, talk about awe, discuss quotations about awe, 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 Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Awe in Everyday Life, 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.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Table 7 and the themes of arguments and forgiveness. Students learn vocabulary and expressions related to arguments and forgiveness, talk about arguing, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film, perform an argument roleplay, read and discuss quotations about forgiveness and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video and the themes of loneliness and youth loneliness. Students learn vocabulary related to loneliness and social interaction, talk about loneliness and youth loneliness, discuss quotations about loneliness, discuss pre-viewing question related to 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 Say Thank You and the themes of being thankful and organ donation. Students write about being thankful, talk about being thankful, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled The Arrival. Students talk about decision-making, watch a short film, write a monologue, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film and reflect on the lesson.

Lesson Summary:This complete ESL video lesson plan, based on the video The Art of Listening: How does listening help us embrace different perspectives?, helps learners explore listening as an active and emotional skill. Designed for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) students, it includes vocabulary development, discussion of quotations, video analysis, comprehension tasks, roleplay, article […]

This ESL lesson plan  is a complete, ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan for B1–B2 learners on appreciating small things and slowing down. It helps students develop vocabulary, viewing and reading comprehension, reflective writing, discussion skills and creative multimodal expression.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film and the theme of beauty. Students talk about what can happen in a second, watch a short film and write down what is happening in each segment, analyse a short film, describe a photo on their mobile phone and say why it is beautiful for them, make a one-second video and reflect on the lesson.