B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: The Importance of Consistency

Lesson Summary:
This Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) ESL lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video titled Intensity vs Consistency and the theme of consistency in personal and professional contexts. Students learn vocabulary related to consistency, habits, leadership and relationships, discuss the importance of consistent behaviour, analyse a short video, read an article titled Consistency in Leadership: Building Trust Through Repetition, and engage in roleplay, writing and multimodal reflection tasks. The lesson promotes critical thinking about how consistency builds trust and success in life and work.

Learning Objectives:
• To introduce students to the theme of consistency in personal and professional contexts.
• To expand vocabulary related to consistency, habits, leadership and relationships.
• To develop students’ viewing, listening and reading comprehension skills.
• To improve students’ speaking skills through discussion and roleplay using new vocabulary.
• To develop students’ writing skills through creative and reflective tasks.
• To enhance students’ multimodal composition skills through multimodal homework tasks.
• To promote critical thinking about how consistency affects success, trust and relationships.

Lesson Activities:
• Vocabulary introduction and pre-viewing discussion
• Viewing and analysing Intensity vs Consistency
• Comprehension and reflection questions
• Roleplay on workplace consistency and trust
• Reading and analysing Consistency in Leadership: Building Trust Through Repetition
• Written reflection and multimodal homework tasks

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

Language Focus:
• Vocabulary related to consistency, habits, leadership and relationships

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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