Sketchy Minds × Upskill Education

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Ready-to-teach English worksheets built around short, thought-provoking videos. Download student and teacher versions, then bring the conversation to class.

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Being Perceived Is Exhausting video thumbnail Video worksheet
🎓B1-B2 Standard lesson 60 min

Being Perceived Is Exhausting

Listening - Speaking - Vocabulary - Critical thinking

A practical exploration of self-monitoring, imagined judgment and the small connection-focused experiments that can loosen the cycle.

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Why Your Brain Attacks You at 2 AM video thumbnail Video worksheet
🎓B1-B2 Standard lesson 60 min

Why Your Brain Attacks You at 2 AM

Listening · Speaking · Vocabulary · Critical thinking

Why awkward memories feel louder at night—and how memory, negativity bias and the spotlight effect shape that experience.

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The Shower Is Smarter Than Your Desk video thumbnail Video worksheet
🎓B1-B2 Standard lesson 55 min

The Shower Is Smarter Than Your Desk

Listening · Speaking · Vocabulary · Critical thinking

Why ideas often arrive after we stop forcing them, plus practical strategies for capturing and testing creative insights.

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You’re Not Running Out of Time video thumbnail Video worksheet
🎓B2 Standard lesson ~80 min

You’re Not Running Out of Time

Listening · Speaking · Vocabulary

A lesson on time perception & productivity — why life speeds up in adulthood and how to slow it down. Core-principle vocabulary, a matching task, a two-part video case study with true/false, and discussion.

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Why You Procrastinate (It’s Not Laziness) video thumbnail Video worksheet
🎓B1–B2 Standard lesson ~65 min

Why You Procrastinate (It’s Not Laziness)

Speaking · Listening · Vocabulary

A speaking-focused lesson on why procrastination is an emotion problem, not laziness — an agree/disagree warm-up, true-or-false listening, a Present-Self vs Future-Self role-play, group discussion with ranking, and a personal action plan.

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Why Everything Feels Boring video thumbnail Video worksheet
🎓B1 Standard lesson ~45 min

Why Everything Feels Boring

Listening · Speaking · Vocabulary

A nine-activity listening & speaking lesson on how dopamine and overstimulation make everyday life feel flat — sentence-matching vocabulary, video comprehension, discussion and a reading-and-opinion task.

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The Real Reason You’re Always Tired video thumbnail Video worksheet
🎓B1–B2 Standard lesson ~50 min

The Real Reason You’re Always Tired

Listening · Speaking · Vocabulary

A nine-activity listening & speaking lesson on why constant tiredness is more about the mind than the body — sentence-matching vocabulary, video comprehension, discussion and a reading-and-opinion task.

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