A selection of English ESL art printables with video or movie activity, listening comprehension

This is a reading/vocab and video comprehension activity on the topic of graffiti and the French street artist JR. The link to his TED Talk is included in the activity and should be a permanent link. There is also a good reading activity on JR from the Guardian TEFL website (free) which I have used to bolster this lesson.

Graffiti and Street Artist JR

Containing questions both on and beyond the chosen YouTube video, the following LC Task aims at training pupils' receptive skills at level B2 on the topic "Art".  

Art - Listening Comprehension + Speaking (B2)

This is a worksheet based on a conversation between 2 people about Banksy\'s art from learn English with pie.  

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob9Q1E2X3eA" t

It Includes questions on the report.

Hope you find it useful

 Banksy Artist or vandal

This worksheet was made as an extra activity when you teach the topic 'Famous people'  It consists of two jumbled texts about Andrew Lloyd Webber and Robbie Williams and three exercises.

Famous people

A 6-minute long video about the making of Loving Vincent, with exercises including true or false questions, a couple of open questions, a short vocabulary training and a few topics to discuss orally with your student. 

Link to the youtube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOtwJL4iV8s

Loving Vincent - listening exercise

Listening activity about a short TED talk by Hadi Eldebek on the struggles artists must face in order to get by and pursue their dream career. The talk deals with the topic of investment and funding for the arts. The worksheet includes a preliminary vocabulary exercise, a discussion question and some comprehension questions on the talk. The transcript for the talk is on the following link: https://www.ted.com/talks/hadi_eldebek_why_must_artists_be_poor/transcript

Why must artists be poor? 

This sheet is made for Pre-Intermediate students to preactice listening comprehension, vocabulary on the topic Museums and broaden their mind. It includes before watching task, 2 tasks on conprehension, vocabulary practice and discussion qustions. The key is included.

The Louvre Museum Video Lesson

This is based around a youtube video. The URL of the video is at the top of the sheet. This is meant to be for a listening and speaking class where the communicative language approach is used. It's around 4 minutes long and is dense with information, so I recommend it for high Intermediate to Advanced class. It can be built around a theme of "Entertainment" and some preparatory work with vocabulary involving animation or the entertainment industry is suggested. It's the history of why Mickey Mouse and other classic Disney characters wear white gloves and it goes into detail about this style of animation. I can upload the answer sheet separately. Feel free to make up your own questions, too!

Why do cartoons wear gloves?

Listening activity about a TED talk by artist Titus Kaphar, in which he discusses racist representations in art history and addresses this situation through his art. The worksheet includes open discussion questions, a vocabulary activity in order to understand the talk better and broad listening comprehension questions about the talk. The transcript for the talk can be found on the following link: https://www.ted.com/talks/titus_kaphar_can_art_amend_history/transcript

Can art amend history? 

The story is about a Homeless Girl with a painting, given to her by her late mother, proves to be auspicious.

The worksheet has to do with learning on how to report their speech and improve students writing by also working on an extra activity of an alternative ending to it to have extra fun!

Videowork A picture story

This lesson is designed for higher education students whose levels vary between intermediate and advanced.  

We have included music-related vocabulary and idioms, and also the future tenses with their different uses.

The lesson ends with a karaoke. 

Music

This is a listening activity on a short interview with mixed media artist Lauren Brevner. She never went to art school, but went to Japan and apprenticed with Sin Nakayamal, another self-taught artist. Later on she succeeded through making her art public on Instagram. There is a gap-filling activity for accurate listening, and more general comprehension questions on the interview. 

Interview with Lauren Brevner 

Video or movie activity

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)

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>

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20 Art, Video or movie activity, Listening Comprehension English ESL worksheets pdf & doc