SEL

A Real Pain

This B2 ESL extensive viewing guide is based on the film Real Pain. It is designed to help learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing—through guided analysis, vocabulary building, and post-viewing discussion.

Blame

This ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan, based on Brené Brown’s short talk on blame, explores how and why people blame others. Students expand vocabulary on emotions, accountability and empathy, build comprehension skills, and engage in speaking, writing and roleplay activities.

How Reading Changes Your Brain

Lesson Summary:This ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video How Reading Changes the Way Your Brain Works and explores the themes of reading and how reading changes the brain. Designed for Advanced to Proficient learners, the lesson combines video viewing, discussion, quotation analysis, critical thinking tasks, roleplay and an extended reading text […]

How to Deepen Your Friendships

This ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan explores the themes of friendship and how to deepen friendships. Aimed at Upper Intermediate to Advanced learners, it helps students build vocabulary related to emotional openness and communication while developing key skills through discussion, viewing, analysis, roleplay and a follow-up article. The lesson provides teachers with a structured, engaging resource that supports critical thinking and meaningful language practice.

How to Do Remarkable Things

This complete ESL video lesson plan, based on How to Achieve Remarkable Things, explores developing a high-performance mindset and achieving remarkable things. Designed for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) learners, it includes vocabulary building, viewing, comprehension, roleplay, article reading, writing, and reflection activities that inspire learners to cultivate resilience and focus.

Intellectual Humility

This complete ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video Why Intellectual Humility Matters and explores the themes of humility, intellectual humility, and personal growth. Designed for Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) learners, it includes engaging activities that build vocabulary related to belief and scientific reasoning, develop listening, viewing, and reading skills, and encourage creative writing, reflection, and roleplay. It’s ideal for teachers seeking a ready-to-use, thought-provoking lesson that promotes open-mindedness and critical thinking.

Journaling

This comprehensive ESL video lesson plan helps learners explore the themes of journaling and the power of writing through a rich sequence of viewing tasks, discussions, vocabulary development, critical thinking activities and creative practice. Designed for Upper Intermediate to Advanced students, it provides teachers with a complete, ready-to-use resource that strengthens emotional literacy, reflective skills and communicative confidence.

Peak Performance

This ESL video lesson plan explores peak performance and coaching through a powerful short video. It provides a complete, ready-to-use package for teachers who want to help Advanced to Proficient learners develop vocabulary related to professional development and performance. Students predict content, watch and analyse a video, discuss quotations, practise speaking in a detailed roleplay, read an article, explore ideas through critical discussion and complete creative homework tasks.

Setting Healthy Boundaries

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.

The Art of Listening

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 […]

The Art of Slowing Down

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.

The Gratitude Effect


This complete ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video Not All Gratitude is Created Equal: A Psychologist Explains and explores the theme of gratitude and its effects on relationships and well-being. Designed for Intermediate (B1) to Upper Intermediate (B2) learners, it helps students expand their vocabulary related to virtues, gratitude, relationships and emotions. Through engaging viewing, discussion, roleplay, and writing activities, learners reflect on how practising gratitude can strengthen relationships and improve mental health.

The Importance of Consistency

This complete ESL video lesson plan, based on the short video Intensity vs Consistency, explores the importance of consistency in personal and professional life. Aimed at Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) learners, it engages students through vocabulary building, discussion, viewing comprehension, article reading, roleplay, and reflective writing. Perfect for teachers seeking ready-to-use materials that build both language and critical thinking skills.

Why Humiliation Exists

Lesson Summary:This ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video Humiliation: Why this little-understood emotion exists and explores humiliation and its social function. Designed for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) learners, the lesson offers a complete, ready-to-use package that develops viewing, listening, reading, speaking and writing skills through discussion, quotation analysis, prediction […]

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