Category Archives: Level B2

Reborn Dolls

Level: B2 and up Time: 90min

This thought-provoking ESL lesson — “Reborn Dolls” — is based on a short documentary video about adults who collect life-like “reborn” dolls. It’s an unusual, emotional topic that helps students practise listening comprehension, vocabulary, and discussion skills while exploring a fascinating real-life hobby that blurs the line between art, therapy, and obsession.

Perfect for upper-intermediate and advanced ESL learners, this lesson encourages empathy, creativity, and deep reflection on how people cope with loss or loneliness.

🗂️ In this ESL lesson, students will:

  • 🧩 learn new vocabulary connected to emotions, appearance, and health,
  • 🎧 complete listening comprehension exercises based on a real documentary video,
  • 💬 discuss topics like grief, comfort, judgment, and human connection,
  • 🧠 express opinions and practise agreeing and disagreeing politely,

💡 Why you’ll love this lesson

This ESL video lesson plan includes ready-to-use, worksheets for vocabulary, listening comprehension, and discussion. It’s ideal for teachers who want to bring authentic, real-world topics into the classroom and help students speak naturally about emotions and empathy.

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Top 5 Decision-Making Methods for Democratic Schools

Level: B2 Time: 45min

  • Choosing books for the library.
  • Choosing a patron.
  • Choosing a brand of toilet paper.
  • Choosing the destination of a school trip

Democratic school communities are constantly faced with the need to make decisions.

It is absolutely crucial to make conscious meta-decisions – i.e. decisions about WHO will make a given decision and HOW.

This is a subjective catalog of the 5 most common/useful decision-making methods along with a short test allowing you to decide which method to choose.

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Gaming Grandma

Level: B1/B2 Time: 60min

Grandma Gamer meets her biggest fan. These two prove that friendship has no age limit. Shirley Curry is an 82-year-old living in a retirement community. Joseph is a 26-year-old who turned to online games after family tragedy. This is the story of how the gaming world unexpectedly made them the best of friends.

This online/projector lesson focuses on speaking and listening skills but there is some vocabulary work to do, too.

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Conspiracy Theories

Level: B2 and up

Conspiracy theories have thrived during the pandemic. It’s quite likely that your ss might have met someone who’s brought one up.

Ability to distinguish fact from fiction might just become one of the crucial skills in the next couple of years.

In this handout ss will have a chance to see how conspiracy theories affect the way people perceive the world around them.

In the first part work with a TYT video on a the first-ever, state-by-state survey of American Millennials and Gen Z (ages 18 to 39) on Holocaust.

In the second part, professor Jovan Byford explains how to talk about conspiracy theories.

Quizlet Set to practice vocabulary: https://quizlet.com/536679652/conspiracy-theories-flash-cards/

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What’s inside? Inspiration.

Level: B2 and up

The first part of the worksheet is a self-directed set of four activities. Discussion on working with your family and little bit of pre-listening guess work.

After that students listen to the initial part of the interview and write down comprehesion questions for other students to answer.

Activity five, on the other hand, is a set of hardcore listening comprehension questions. A 20 yo girl calls the show to ask for advice on inspiration and motivation. Seems obvious and easy but… well check it out for yourself. My students found it pretty challenging.

Finally, a discussion on privilage and unfair advantage, based on the story of New Orleans. Before going into discussion, I suggest pre-teaching New Orleans’ tough history which resulted in residential segregation of the city.

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Online Dating – Tinder & Such

Level: A2 – B2

Online dating made meeting people easier than ever. Apps such as Tinder have many advantages but they do come with some flaws.

Lesson based on a video ‘97% match’ and fragments of lifehacker article

The Worst First Date Mistakes and How to Bounce Back

From forgetting your wallet to going in for the kiss at the wrong time, a class about all the challenges of 21 century dating. Enjoy!!!

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21st Century Activism

Level: B2 and up

Have you got any idea what #thinspo and #proana movements are?

Teenagers around the world go through some hardcore stuff during their puberty. It’s always been that way. But in the era of internet, social media and harsh judgment it becomes unbearable for some.

This is an interview with an actress, tv host and above all body positivity activist Jameela Jamil.

Make sure you read the teacher’s notes before using this material.

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When patience goes platinum.

When Patience Goes Platinum

2018 Grammy Nominee for Best Rap/Sung Performance GoldLink talking with Gary about his future plans.

Two versions of worksheet available.

For students who have access to a phone or computer with internet acces – use the handout WITHOUT the article. More activities and a vocabulary box to work with.

For those of you who won’t have access to internet during the lesson  -check out the handout WITH the article.

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