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 activity is based on the first chapter on the TV series, TOUCH. The first chapter is 45 minutes long and the activities included in this worksheet include general listening comprehension, ide ...
This is a worksheet that I made because my little sister loves Mr.Bean and it's basically you watch the episode and answer the questions about it and then there's another bit in which you say abou ...
A worksheet to do whilst watching Fawlty Towers 'A Touch of Class' episode. Some comprehension questions (a few with multiple choice answers) and some vocabulary. I did this worksheet with an elem ...
Questions and vocabulary practice. Listen to the first chapter of Hunger Games on Youtube (Audiobook) or read the first chapter and answer the questions related to this chapter. The book is really ...
In Treatment is an American HBO drama, about a psychologist, 50-something Dr. Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients, as well as those with his own therapist at the end of the week. Th ...
It's a listening worksheet about how the orange juice is made. Students need to complete missing words and numbers. It's an active listening with visual help. It's a practical use of language that ...
Do the the pre-watching activities with the students. Watch the video called "How it's made - Potato chips". While watching, students do the next set of acitivities. After watching, students do th ...
Watch the video from Youtube and then read the worksheet. When watching it for the second time pause after each section and do the exercises on the worksheet. I hope you will have fun.
A lesson on fortune telling is a good way to teach the future tense. To introduce the topic, I play the students a clip from the movie, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", while they liste ...
This worksheet is based on the following video (see below).
Students watch the video in full and then in shorter parts while filling in the activities.
After watching the whole movie which is not so long, students have to do the first task that is to remember who the main characters are. The second task is to put the sentences in the right order ...
A Power Point presentation with images of the trilogy The Lord Of The Rings. It can be used in class when talking about films and actors. Teachers who want to familiarize students with Power Point ...
This worksheet is based on a popular among teenagers movie "House of Anubis". It's interesting and not very difficult. It was made especially for those spring lessons when students are tired and t ...
Get your students to practice the past simple in a fun way with this video activity. You can make it into a game by dividing the class into groups and awarding points for correct answers. For adde ...
These are the questions I wrote to discuss with my students the 1st Episode of Friends. I use it for my upper-intermediate and advanced level students to encourage them to speak more. Firstly I as ...
I used this worksheet for my intermediate students. Before watching the video (Partly Cloudy, a Pixar CGI animated short film directed by Peter Sohn) the students get acquainted with the main hero ...
One can use this worksheet together with Mr. Bean 'The examination' video (10-minute clip) to teach some personality traits/temporary state of mind adjectives and prepositions that go with them, e ...
Some activities based on the film Patch Adams for Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate students. Activities include ordering the events in the film, some comprehension questions and adjectives for de ...
It is a short review of The Prince and the Showgirl. The leading actors- Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier. This worksheet can be used before or after watching the film or some of its part. On ...
I used this worksheet as a listening activity in a lesson about werewolves. Here is a link to the movie trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPieOzIA7NM It is useful for students to listen to ...
Episode about Friends' TV SERIES last episode. There are 2 activities. The first task is to complete a text with the correct word and the second one is to answer "true or false". It's nice and int ...
This is a great activity to do with Elementary/Pre-intermediate students, but can also be adapted for higher levels. Watch The Wrong Trousers with your students and pause the film in four places, ...
Students can search for 10 words in a difficult 15X15 grid (Snow, Cause, Night, Forever, Value, Blood, Refuse, Beauty, Mirror, Forest).To be used after viewing the trailer with them and discussing ...
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