A selection of English ESL adjectives to describe personality and character printables with video or movie activity, listening comprehension

Video or movie activity

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

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)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

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>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

This is a cloze test about the history halloween and in the text you can find out the origin of Halloween, its traditions and symbols more representative. The test consists in a video that pupils have to watch (the link is included in the text) and then they have to fill in the gaps in the text, and finally they have to answer some questions about the video they have just watched.

Listening Activity: Halloween Explain

To extract information from an audio/visual item to fill this form.

Teachers can make use of this sheet to make sure that students are actively involved in providing answers to the given questions and are having fun at the same time.

I recommend to download and display a subtitle to each movie that teachers show. Teachers can pause, both the movie and subtitle, to attract students attention to a particular situation or a particular vocabulary item, which can be discussed either while the movie is being displayed or in a later, more convenient,  time.

Enjoy it.



Movie Review

The objective of this worksheet is to provide practice about describing the characters clothes. Besides they can taok bout their physical appearance and personality too. It is suitable for elementary students but specially for young learners.

Insideout movie worksheet

I used this as a "filler" class for my middle school students during midterm week. We watched the episode (with Korean subtitles - found online), and they could work on the worksheet during and/or after watching. If your students are lower level, I would recommend shortening the "order the events" list so it is not as intimidating for them to tackle.

The Simpsons [My Sister, My Sitter - S08 E17]

Worksheet based on BBC 6 Minute English related to star signs

Star signs

Another Anglophenia episode is here! Watch the video to learn how to make the best cuppa the British way! This is mostly a speaking-listening activity where students watch the video and then discuss the topic by answering the questions. It also contains some information on tea in general

How to Make Tea the British Way - Anglophenia Ep 31

A worksheet to use with a BBC video presenting the biggest political parties in the UK. The students watch the video and are asked to answer questions and to match the names of the politicians with their parties

British Elections 2015

The material was developed to address the issue of gender within society and it is aimed at teenagers whose level is B1-B2. The goals of this lesson are to introduce students to new vocabulary, to improve their listening, speaking, and writing skills, and to practise the target language orally. The teacher should consider carefully each exercise and worksheet in order to combine the video links correctly. This worksheet is great for students since they can discuss, elaborate and share their experiences and opinions. 

Video link 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

Video link 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxYvhh1hQvk 



Critical Pedagogy- gender 

Season1 Episode7 simple present tense, present contınıous tense, personality adjectives, vocabulary, merlin worksheet, description, movie lesson, listening. fill in the blanks, true fals

MERLIN

This worksheet is to practice simple past tense and aims at improving students understanding towards a movie they watch. This worksheet is suitable for Pre-Intermediate students  

Snow white and the huntsman movie worksheet

Using a TV Show to teach and entertain students. The Video Can be found on Netflix (In English with English Subtitles). 

1) Play the first part [04:07-5:10] and ask students to do the Quiz.

2) Play the second part [17:25-21:45] and Quiz.

3)Do the discussion (talking)

4) Ask the GUESS WHAT and then play the rest of the episode. 

FREAKS AND GEEKS [EPISODE 5] 

The worksheet focuses on the vocabulary to describe appearance, namely facial features. It can be used as part of the module on the connection between personality and appearance. Tasks include listening for details, comprehension questions, and speaking activities.  

14 Adjectives to describe personality and character, Video or movie activity, Listening Comprehension English ESL worksheets pdf & doc