Let’s face it: Even the most enthusiastic ESL class sometimes goes through dull periods. No matter how much you switch up the activities and topics, there’s only so much English that your students can absorb at any one time. Still, that limit is sometimes a lot higher than your students believe it is - and the genuine exhaustion caused by a challenging topic, is very different from boredom that comes from too much repetition. When your students are just plain bored of board work, that’s when it’s time to break out one of your “emergency” activities - the ones you know will raise your class’s mood.
You’ve probably got some go-to activities of your own - but it never hurts to add some new ones to your arsenal. That’s exactly why BusyTeacher.org has put together this collection of 1,099 worksheets themed on movies, cartoons, and viral videos. You won’t have to wonder whether these activities will catch your students’ interest - because each one is based on a movie or show that they already love to watch. For those times when ESL starts feeling a little too abstract, these worksheets bring English back into the real world, and inspire students to use it to talk about their own pop culture.
But that’s not the only reason these 1,099 worksheets are handy. BusyTeacher.org’s movie and video worksheets help you organize lessons on a wide variety of ESL areas - from basic grammar and vocabulary to listening and speaking. Whether your students are level-one beginners or level-five English experts, we’ve got worksheets appropriate for their level. In fact, many of these worksheets can be adapted for different ESL levels - meaning they can be used again and again in all the classes you teach.
While some of BusyTeacher.org’s 1,099 movie and video worksheets offer simple fill-in-the-blank or matching exercises, others provide frameworks for games and activities, encourage students to listen and answer questions about what happens in video clips, or even spark open-ended discussions about their favorite movies and shows. So whether you need to calm down a turbulent class or pump some energy into a quiet one, these movie worksheets will grab your students’ attention.
How do we know these worksheets work? Because every single one of them has been created and tested in the classrooms of real ESL teachers just like you. And each one is completely free to download, modify, and share - you don’t even have to register on our site. But if you have a worksheet of your own that’s been a hit in your classroom, we’d love for you to share it with our international community of ESL teachers. It’s as easy as clicking the “Submit a worksheet” button at the bottom of this page.
Ready to find a worksheet for your class? You might want to start with the top ten most popular movie and video worksheets. Or you can browse BusyTeacher.org’s complete collection of 1,099 movie and video worksheets - all available to view in thumbnail mode, so you can see exactly what you’ll be getting when you download each one.
So take a look at what we have to offer. We’re confident that any BusyTeacher movie worksheet you choose will make you the star of your classroom.
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This is a worksheet for the trailer of the film Avengers (2012). This can be used with many levels as a warm-up or a filler exercise. It is basically a fill-in-the-gap task based on the script of ...
A basic comprehension worksheet about the movie "Iron Man 3". There are some questions about the main character of the movie. Questions about his name, nickname, age, and some other information th ...
This movie worksheet is designed for elementary level students. It covers first eight minutes in the movie. Some words are underlined: you can make an activity in the begininng, for example, match ...
This is a worksheet based on a cute cartoon about Bugs Bunny. It can be a simple warm-up at the beginning of the lesson. It will help the pupils get down to work and quickly revise plurals. And a ...
For my after school class we have been watching shows. They seemed to really like Tron so that's what we've been using. This is the transcript for the first episode. There is one for the teacher w ...
This worksheet is based on the funny old Disney cartoon. The first task is a kind of warmer, students decide what kind of melodies they like, then there is a couple of tasks on the cartoon compreh ...
A link, a script and some tasks to the video about the USA for children and adults. The text and tasks can be used for reading comprehension, there's also a task for defining US states.
It's a worksheet to work with the movie Sense and Sensibility, a classic of English literature. Maybe it is great to read a short version of the novel first with your students and then compare it ...
Listening & Speaking : By A. Maitree Jeremy / Kingston Crown International. Level : Pre-intermediate to Intermediate.Teaching Material : YouTube. Objectives : To stimulate stu ...
Power Point presentation I used with my Intermediate group to talk about accomplishments. I love Jimmy Kimmel's show for fun videos like this. I love showing the lie detector one just for fun.&nbs ...
I used this with my intermediate students. In the 'Interchange' and 'Four Corners' series there's a unit about inventions. This worksheet is about a small part of the show American Inventor. This ...
It's a very nice movie worksheet to work especially with children. They love it! You can also revise the use of have got and the present simple tense. Besides you can encourage students to d ...
Taken from TV series 'Friends' episode 23 (season 4) will come in handy to those busyteachers who want to revise reported speech and have a good laugh as well. There are pre-, while- and post-watc ...
This is a worksheet based on a funny and weirdly awesome cartoon "Out of Forest". The tasks draw students' attention to details of the animation and provoke their creativity. I planned this video ...
This worksheet is based on an episode taken from popular cartoon series ‘Hey, Arnold’ and will be of great use at the beginning of a new school year or while studying ‘Education& ...
I prepared this worksheet to use with my intermediate students. First, I asked them to talk in pairs about the questions in part A, and then I asked them to watch the video not worrying about answ ...
The video worksheet is targeted on Elementary and Pre-Intermediate level students doing a General English course. The issue for discussion is public transport. Before viewing the teacher asks the ...
Last year I had a pretty difficult situation: I had a number of advanced students and I simply ran out of material in the textbook that we used. So I had to make something really challenging and e ...
An interesting interview with Emma Watson from the Times magazine series "Ten questions for..." where the questions asked are selected from the questions sent by readers. There are several questio ...
This worksheet was created to help my students develop listening skills. We used the episodes 1 - 4 to develop this worksheet. It can be used by pre-inter students. It provides character's re ...
For russian speakers only! The worksheet provides the student with words from the pilot episode of "Sherlock Holmes" BBC TV series. Before watching you may read through the words or start straight ...
This short exercise is a fill in the gap task based on the movie trailer of Pacific Rim. It can be used as a filler or a warm-up and if we listen to it several times, even students at lower levels ...
Here's a video session worksheet on one of the first episodes of Friends. It includes listening comprehension activities and pre and after watching activities. Students will have the chance to get ...
This worksheet is made to be useâ after watching the film Elf. It is a great end of the semester grammar review for intermediate (B1) students. Grammar review includes: Question word order, tag qu ...
The topic of this worksheet is crime. This worksheet is based on the American series called Dexter. It provides lots of grammar exercises for the past simple tense. It includes gap-fill exercises. ...
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