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ESL Lessons for  Teaching Movies/Theatre

Expressing likes & dislikes about movies (PDF)

Activities for learning about theatre,theatre
vocabulary etc (PDF)

What movie would you like to see?

Movie Charades

Invitation to movies lesson

Film festival season lesson (PDF)

Film and cinema lesson plan

Film Festival: An ESL Lesson Plan to Get Students Talking About Movies

BBC lesson about Clint Eastwood in
"Make my Day"

Grammar Review Lesson
using movie theme

The English Learner Movie Guides

Describing Vocabulary for Cinema, Movies,and Stars -esl lesson plan


Writing about movies for ESL students (how to write movie  reviews)

Movie list ( 8 page PDF)

Some vocabulary for writing movie
reviews (PDF)

Brainstorming movies (PDF)

Brainstorming about the movie "The
Titanic"(PDF)

Guided essay outline for  a review of
the movie "The Titanic (PDF)
using criteria from the link below

Criteria for "how to write a movie review"

Guided writing exercise about  a book

Writing about film/movies (advanced)

Reading Movie reviews guide

All about movies. A fun reading activity all about movies.


Famous people/celebrity lessons for ESL Students

Who is it? celebrity worksheet (PDF)

Heroes vs celebrities lesson plan (PDF)

Jackie Chan lesson (PDF)

Describing famous people activity (PDF)

Celebrity 20 Questions

Who am I? Activity type: Guessing game

Questions about Me

Celebrity Press conference: Activity type: Group role play

Rank the following celebrities for their contribution to society -discussion lesson

Lessons for talking about various important
people incl Oprah Winfrey, Henry Ford ,
Jesse Jackson , Helen Keller (PDF)

Celebrity Backs:Ask yes/no questions to guess the celebrity name on each student's back

Lesson Theme: Famous British figures and the cult of celebrity. Role models for young people.

Find lessons for 'David Beckham' and 'Celebrity Crimes' on this page (PDF)

100 Remarkable People lesson outline:  upper-intermediate

John Lennon lesson plan: intermediate

The People and Events That Changed History
(discussion questions: advanced)

Gandhi lesson (PDF)


The history behind the movies lesson

Using Movies In Class…Without Sound?

Movie magic-plot creation communicative activity

Great Scenes from Movies for Role-play

Speaking activity about movies

Movie charades

The Grammar of TV and Film

The English Learner Movie Guides

Techniques for story creation(Story Arts)

Lesson plan/transcript for "The Edge"