A selection of English ESL how to write a story video quizzes

Students should do a number of tasks related to writing a story and pay special attention to grammar. 

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This video outlines basic instructions for writing a biography. It explains the difference between an autobiography and a biography.

Writing Tutorial - How To Write A Biography

Watch this video carefully and do the tasks.

How to Write a Short Story - 4 Easy Steps

Upper-intermediate (B2) How to write a story For Cambridge FCE exam, tips and recommendations

How To Write A Short Story - First For Schools Exam

Watch the video and answer questions on how to create suspense on your stories.

Writing Tips: How To Make Your Writing Suspenseful

Show your understanding of the story by choosing the right answers and check your knowledge of Present Simple tense.

Alissa - The Girl Who Works 15 Hours A Day

It´s  a 1:25 minute snippet from a song in La La Land, a musical love story . The plot explores the conflicts that pull apart two young lovers .It’s a  deep listening comprehension task for upper intermediate or advanced students through scrambled lines of a song. Useful for integrated tasks: speaking, listening, writing. I’d  start asking the students to discuss the introduction to the song and the final part of it available at youtube.com

La La Land Trailer - Fools Who Dream

I turned this short animation into a dubbing game with 7 gapfill questions. Here's how you can use it in class:

1. Show the video lesson to the students. For each gapfill popup, they should guess what the wildebeests are saying, and suggest exactly one word to fill in the gap (5 out of 7 gaps a basic verb in either present simple, present continuous or past simple form). If the students have trouble guessing the right word, just give them clues, ask them helpful questions so they can figure it out.

2. Follow up: watch the video again on YouTube (you can find the original link below this description). Put students in pairs. Stop the video at each talking point and let them create their own unique dialog. Then continue playing and stop again at the next talking point. Students continue writing their dialog. 
3. Go around and make sure to correct what the pairs are writing.
4. Get the pairs to practice their dialog. 
5. Finally, ask for volunteers to dub the movie live while you're playing the video.
6. For homework you can either ask students to expand the dialog a little bit, and submit it in writing. Or you can ask them to write it up as a fable (an animal story). 

My video lesson is meant for Beginners (pre-A1) and Elementary (A1) students.

Have fun!

Wildebeests Arguing - Subtitle Completion

This 1:30 minute video lesson is a dubbing game with 13 gaps to be filled in the dialog of Morph and Chas.

Recommended procedure:

1. Show the video lesson to the students. If your students have difficulty guessing the missing word, you can help them with clues. 

2. Follow up by watching the video again on YouTube (you will find the original video link right below this description). Pair up the students. Stop the video at each dialog point and ask them to come up with their own dialog. Then resume playing and stop again at the next dialog point. Students then keep writing the next line of their dialog. 

3. Walk around and monitor what the pairs are writing. Correct errors if needed.
 
4. When finished, the pairs should practice their dialog. 

5. Lastly, get volunteers to dub the movie on the fly while you're playing the video. 

6. Homework: students should make the dialog a bit longer by adding more details. Alternatively, they could transform the dialog into a story. 

My video lesson is meant for Elementary (A1) and Pre-intermediate (A2) students. Have fun!


Morph: Sloped World - Subtitle Completion

Learning the past simple is beneficial for several reasons. Firstly, it's one of the fundamental tenses in English, used to describe actions or events that occurred and were completed in the past. Mastering this tense enhances your ability to communicate about past experiences accurately and fluently.

Secondly, understanding the past simple opens up a vast array of literature, media, and historical documents. Many stories, novels, and articles are written in the past tense, and being proficient in the past simple allows you to engage with these materials fully.

Additionally, the past simple is crucial for storytelling and recounting events, whether in casual conversations or formal presentations. It enables you to convey narratives effectively and capture your audience's attention.

Moreover, proficiency in the past simple is essential for academic and professional writing. It allows you to discuss research findings, historical events, and past developments with precision and clarity.

In summary, learning the past simple enriches your language skills, facilitates communication, broadens your access to English literature and media, and enhances your storytelling abilities, making it a valuable aspect of language learning.

Zootopia - Try Everything - Shakira - Past Simple

Watch the video and do the test. Complete the sentences

Madagascar 3 - Circus Fireworks Scene

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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