ESL Lesson PLan: Movie/Film

English Conversation – Movies This is the preparation material for an English Conversation lesson about movies. There are some common terms and idioms that we use when discussing movies and a list of conversation questions that people might ask eachother when talking about this subject. Audio discussion about movies Listen to discussion about movies Transcript of audio discussion Vocabulary we might use when talking about movies Writing English Drama Scripts in ESL Class English learners need to use their English in productive settings to improve their communicative skills. One of the most fun ways to do this is by working on collaborative projects. Students work together towards some tangible goal such as a business presentation, creating a power point slide or by performing a short work for each other. This lesson plan focuses on helping students write a short script, practice the dialogue and perform for fellow students. Having students perform a short drama script that they've developed combines a number of production skills through working in groups. Some of the territory covered includes:

Video Teaching and Video Films. ESL Teaching Videos Google + Students really enjoy watching movies and TV for a variety of reasons. For one, they get exposure to natural language in a non-threatening setting. Secondly, movies and video provide common ground to students of any international background. Below you'll find both general teaching resources as well as fully-developed lessons on various films and videos. So, pop yourself some popcorn and settle down in front of your computer for some fun with movies.It doesn't matter if you have contemporary office furniture, patio furniture or grandma's castoff furniture. ESL EFL Teaching Activities, Worksheets, Lessons These fun grammar activities, games and worksheets help you to teach your students comparatives. You will also find engaging resources to teach comparative adjectives, sentence structure and common comparative expressions. This impressive set of ESL grammar activities, worksheets and games helps your students to learn superlatives. There are also resources to help students practice superlative adjectives, sentence structure and questions that contain superlative forms. These rewarding grammar games, ESL activities, worksheets and lessons combine comparative and superlative adjective forms and structures together. The page contains a wealth of fun resources to give students practice at using both forms with a wide range of adjectives and expressions.

Effective Classroom Movie Lesson Plan Ideas If you are unable to show an entire film because of time or school guidelines, you may want to show scenes or clips. You may also want to use the closed caption feature during a film because the combination of reading with film can reinforce student understanding, especially if the film is an adaptation of a play (Shakespeare) or novel (Pride and Prejudice). The following list gives ideas for how you can effectively use films to reinforce what is being taught. Advanced Level Listening: How to Spot a Liar I noticed that some of you would like more realistic listening practice, so here's another Ted lecture for you to test your listening skills! How are your listening skills? Listening to long English lecture style listenings are an important ability. Students on our university preparation programmes practise listening to lectures, because in American universities, lectures are the main way of teaching. It's a difficult task to listen and take notes for future reference at the same time. This skill is also important if you need to listen to business presentations in English.

14 Hilarious TV Series Scenes to Boost Your English – RealLife English If you’re like most learners, you know that studying grammar can be really BORING. Even worse, although it may improve your reading and writing, it won’t help you understand natural native conversations. On the other hand, watching TV Series is extremely FUN and ENGAGING. You look forward to it, you feel immersed in the story, and if you do it right, it can be a very powerful way to learn English. FREE: 10 Scene Power Lesson Packet (from scenes below) Love Actually: activities, ideas, vocabulary I use a lot of films in my teaching: not just occasional Youtube clips but full-length authentic feature films, and I’ve been wanting for a while to start a new section on this blog where I would upload my film-based materials. I thought December would be a suitable time to share materials for many people’s favourite Christmas film Love Actually.Warning: some scenes are suitable for adults only Activities actually The activities are divided into three parts. They are not particularly imaginative - mainly questions to answer while watching.

Topics for Debate in English This page lists suggested subjects that can be discussed to practise agreeing and disagreeing in English. Here are 20 topics to discuss with a friend or group. Practise agreeing and disagreeing even if you have to argue against something you actually believe in. One way to have fun with this is to make up a bunch of cards that say agree or disagree. Each person has to pick up a card and then the topic is read out. It is more fun to have a debate this way because you don't have to play your true self.