B1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: Street Artist

Lesson Summary:
This B1–B2 ESL video lesson plan is built around the short film Meet the Street Artist Transforming Dubai and explores the theme of street art and street artists. It helps learners develop key skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing—through vocabulary building, guided video tasks, discussion of quotations, roleplay, critical thinking, and an engaging follow-up article titled How Street Art Positively Transforms Cities.

Learning Objectives:

• To introduce students to the concept of street art and street artists

• To expand students’ vocabulary related to street art and creative communities

• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills

• To develop students’ writing skills through creative tasks and use of new vocabulary

• To improve students’ speaking skills through roleplay and discussions and use of new vocabulary

• To improve students’ visual representing skills through multimodal composition homework tasks

Lesson Activities:

• Vocabulary exploration of street art and creative communities

• Discussion of quotations about street art

• Pre-viewing predictions and video analysis

• Comprehension and critical discussion tasks

• Roleplay activity connected to urban art projects

• Reading and analysing the article How Street Art Positively Transforms Cities

• Creative writing, reflection and multimodal homework tasks

Learner Type:
Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) teens and adults

Language Focus:

• Vocabulary related to street art and creative communities

• Language for critical discussion and creative expression

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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