B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Do Remarkable Things

Lesson Summary:
This Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) ESL lesson plan is built around the inspiring video How to Achieve Remarkable Things and explores the themes of developing a high-performance mindset and achieving remarkable things. Through vocabulary development, viewing, discussion, roleplay, reading, and reflective writing, students learn how discipline, resilience, and focus contribute to success. The lesson also includes an article titled The Power of Focus: What It Takes to Do Remarkable Things and Achieve Excellence to deepen understanding and critical thinking.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the concepts of developing a high-performance mindset and doing remarkable things
• To expand students’ vocabulary related to achievement, mindset, resilience and motivation
• To develop students’ viewing and listening comprehension skills
• To strengthen students’ writing and speaking skills using newly acquired vocabulary
• To enhance students’ visual representation skills through multimodal composition homework tasks
• To foster students’ critical thinking through reflection and discussion

Lesson Activities:
• Vocabulary pre-teaching and prediction tasks
• Viewing and comprehension questions on the video
• Discussion and analysis of high-performance mindset principles
• Roleplay and creative communication tasks
• Reading and comprehension of The Power of Focus: What It Takes to Do Remarkable Things and Achieve Excellence
• Writing and reflection on personal growth and achievement
• Homework integrating vocabulary from the Video and Article Glossaries

Learner Type:
Upper Intermediate (B2) – Advanced (C1); mature teens and adults

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary on achievement, mindset, resilience and motivation
• Language of focus, performance and excellence

Benefits for Teachers:

• Save hours of preparation with a fully developed, flexible lesson plan
• Engage students through compelling stories and real-world themes such as emotional intelligence, character, values, empathy, personal development, identity, relationships, global issues and social issues
• Build classroom routines that integrate multimodal literacy naturally and progressively
• Foster more inclusive and differentiated learning by using varied modes of input
• Rely on a trusted methodology backed by educational research and grounded in the theories of Vygotsky, Kress, Mayer and Krashen

Benefits for Learners:

• Develop communicative competence and confidence through integrated skill-building
• Expand vocabulary and improve listening and reading comprehension through repeated, meaningful exposure
• Think critically and creatively while exploring powerful social and emotional themes
• Strengthen emotional intelligence and intercultural awareness through affective engagement with multimodal texts

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