Personal Development

This ESL lesson is designed around an inspiring short film about what we do in our everyday lives. In the lesson students watch and discuss a short film, and write three to do lists. The lesson also encourages students to reflect on their own language learning and how they can improve it.

This Advanced (C1) to Proficient (C2) ESL lesson plan is designed around the short video How One Decision Can Create ‘A New Self’ and the themes of transformative decisions, transformative experiences and personal identity. Students explore how life-changing choices can alter their values, perspectives and sense of self.

This complete, ready-to-use C1–C2 ESL video lesson plan is built around the theme of leadership in modern organisations. Designed for mature teens and adults, the lesson helps learners explore what makes a great leader, how leadership is changing and why innovation depends on culture, collaboration and trust.

This complete B2–C1 ESL video lesson plan explores different ways of defining professional success and the dangers of allowing a career to become the basis of personal identity. Built around a thought-provoking video featuring Arthur C. Brooks, the lesson encourages adult learners to examine the relationship between achievement, professional status, self-esteem and fear of failure.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Why your Epicurean approach will never make you truly happy and the themes of happiness and suffering. Students learn vocabulary related to happiness and suffering, talk about happiness and suffering, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, check true/false sentences, analyse a short video, develop critical thinking skills by exploring real-world issues, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, …

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Why your life is so boring and the theme of why people think their lives are boring. Students talk about why people think their lives are boring, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, make viewing notes, analyse a short video, discuss quotations from a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.