This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Failing Upwards and the themes of success and failure. Students learn vocabulary related to success and failure, talk about success and failure, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from a short video and reflect on the lesson. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: Learning vocabulary related to success and failure, talking about success and f ..read more

We are delighted to announce we are offering a new edition of our innovative course, Empathy in Language Teaching, in Barcelona this summer.     On this course, tutored by Kieran Donaghy, the Director of Pedagogy at Film English and the School for Training, teachers learn why empathy is particularly important in language teaching and how empathy can be developed among both language teachers and learners.   Watch a video about the course.   The course lasts five days and there are a total of twenty contact hours.   The course language is English but the course is sui ..read more

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to Become a Powerful Public Speaker and the theme of public speaking. Students learn vocabulary related to public speaking, talk about public speaking, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: Learning vocabulary related to public speaking, talking about public speaking, predicting the content o ..read more

  A 75-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-winning film Barbie Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera and Kate McKinnon starring for English language students who want to learn English through watching films. The guide will help students improve their English vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking. The viewing guide includes: • Viewing recommendations • A film synopsis with a glossary • Pre-viewing discussion questions • A glossary (CEFR B1 – C2) of 400 words, phrasal verbs and expressions with phonetic spelling used in the film, with 1,200 example s ..read more

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How the discovery of DNA changed the world and the theme of DNA and how DNA has changed the world. Students learn vocabulary related to DNA, talk about DNA and how DNA has changed the world, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from a short video and reflect on the lesson. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: Learning vocabulary related to DN ..read more

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Why the U.S. Should Provide Universal Basic Income and the themes of inequality and universal basic income. Students learn vocabulary related to universal basic income, talk about inequality in the USA, talk about universal basic income, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video and reflect on the lesson. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time ..read more

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled How to solve the world’s plastic problem and the theme of plastic and how to solve the world’s plastic problem. Students learn vocabulary related to plastic, talk about plastic and how to solve the world’s plastic problem, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from a short video and reflect on the lesson. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: L ..read more

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video How Best to Manage Your Moods and the themes of moods and how to manage moods. Students learn vocabulary related to moods, talk about moods and how to manage moods, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, complete viewing notes, analyse a short video, write about a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson. Language level: Upper Intermediate (B2) – Advanced (C1) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: Learning vocabulary related to moods, talking about moods and how to manage moods, pre ..read more

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Can You Boost Your Creativity? and the theme of creativity. Students learn vocabulary related to creativity, talk about creativity, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from a short video and reflect on the lesson. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: Learning vocabulary related to creativity, talking about creativity, predicting the content ..read more

A 75-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-winning film Spectre starring Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris for English language students who want to learn English through watching films. The guide will help students improve their English vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking. The viewing guide includes: • Viewing recommendations • A film synopsis with a glossary • Pre-viewing discussion questions • A glossary (CEFR B1 – C2) of 400 words, phrasal verbs and expressions with phonetic spelling used in the film, with 1,200 exam ..read more