C1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Moral Imagination

Lesson Summary:
This C1–C2 ESL lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking video titled How to Have Moral Courage & Moral Imagination? and explores morality, moral courage, and moral imagination. Designed for mature teens and adults, the lesson helps learners develop key skills—speaking, listening, reading, and writing—through guided discussions, comprehension tasks, roleplay, and critical reflection. Students expand their vocabulary for ethical decision-making, analyse moral dilemmas, and explore how to broaden their moral imagination through a video and an article.

Learning Objectives:
• Introduce the concepts of morality, morals, and moral imagination
• Expand vocabulary for ethical decision-making and perspective taking
• Develop viewing, listening, and reading comprehension skills
• Strengthen writing skills through creative tasks and new vocabulary use
• Build speaking skills through guided discussion and roleplay
• Encourage multimodal composition through reflective homework tasks

Lesson Activities:
• Vocabulary introduction on morality and perspective taking
• Discussion of quotations about morality
• Prediction task and video viewing
• Comprehension questions and video analysis
• Reading and discussing a related article
• Guided writing tasks and reflection
• Roleplay activity exploring moral dilemmas

Learner Type:
Advanced (C1) – Proficient (C2) | Mature teens and adults

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary for ethical decision-making
• Vocabulary for perspective taking
• Functional language for moral discussions

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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