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To help your ESL students improve their English using any movie or short film,
try out the following activities!
10 Creative Ways to Use Popular Movies in Fun ESL Lessons
5 Great ESL Movie Comprehension Activities
Movies can be
implemented into any lesson, with the purpose of getting
students to comprehend and gain meaning from free-flowing speech. Here are five great
activities to check comprehension.
How Observant Are You?
This activity is good for getting students to talk in the past tense about
observation-based facts.
Before the movie clip, don’t tell the students what they are looking for, but tell
them to watch with a keen detective’s eye. Afterwards
ask them a question about a
specific item in a room, or a character’s words or actions. You can make this a group
exercise, getting teams to write their answers together. Repeat as many times as you
want!
Vocabulary Meaning Match
Use a movie to reinforce or teach vocabulary with this simple activity.
Give students a worksheet with a list of vocabulary words in one column, and
scrambled definitions in the other. As students watch the movie clip, they have to match
the vocabulary to the adjacent list of meanings.
Order
the Events
This is a reading-based activity, good for building up students’ recall power.
After watching the clip, give students a set of event cards (no more than ten), in
pairs or individually. Each card should contain one or two sentences of events from the
movie clip. These can be as significant or insignificant as you want, depending on the
length of the clip and what the focus of the lesson is. Students have to rearrange the
events into the correct order.
ivities is to get your students using English in an informal and fun way, with less
structure than the comprehension exercises above. Choose a popular movie for
maximum excitement and participation from students!
This activity will get students up, out of their shells and speaking English in a fun,
relaxed way.
Watch a movie clip that’s anywhere between five
and twenty minutes long,
depending on the length of the lesson and the level of your students. Afterwards, tell the
students that they will be performing the clip to their peers. Put them in groups,
according to how many characters there are in the movie clip. The aim is to have the
right number of characters for the number of students in a group, but when this is not
possible, two students can play the part of one character,
splitting the lines between
them. Alternatively there could also be a narrator.
There are several different ways to do this activity. You can give students only a
short amount of time to practice, and not allow them to write anything down. You could
even give them no time at all, and see if they can create an improvised version, although
this should be reserved for higher or more confident students.
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Another version is to allow students to prepare a script of sorts before they begin
practicing, or even to print an extract of the script for them to use. After an adequate
amount of rehearsal time, students perform for each other.
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