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

"Zombies in Plain English" is a video created to celebrate Halloween and help protect your brain http://www.commoncraft.com/zombies). It focuses on how to survive a zombie attack. Students get the script of the video, which is not completely accurate. The words in bold are my words, and students have to listen and figure out what’s really being said instead. They’ll find every phrase they’ll hear on the right. Page 2 has a vocab exercise (with KEY). Bless up, Kisdobos

Zombies - Listening exercise for Halloween

WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEM AND COMPLETE THE GAPS.

HALLOWEEN HISTORY

Halloween activity! I've made three different activities to use while/after watching the movie, so you can choose which one you prefer. Key included (they may have a mistake or two; I suggest you watch the movie first!) Thanks for the attention!



FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT FIND THE MOVIE: I've got it on DVD, so I can use it with subtitles and all. But I've just found this video online here: http://www.stickam.com/viewMedia.do?mId=190047077

I hope I've helped!!

"It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" Movie Worksheet

The One with the Halloween Party. Season 8. Worksheet to work with your students and have fun!

Friends Episode. 

Two tasks I made for "This is Britain - Halloween" video I found on You Tube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSsPTSMWoJE). Thanks to these your students will not only watch, but will also concentrate on eliciting the most important information. You can play video once or twice - it's up to you. Enjoy! 

This is Britain - Halloween video 

Worksheet created for my Halloween themed lessons. A couple of exercises using the famous song \'This is Halloween\' from Tim Burton\'s 1993 film Nightmare Before Christmas



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGR8ftTcjmA



Last 3 pages include the full lyrics without any gaps or words in bold.

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Halloween Song Worksheet. YT link in the description

Tim Burton´s pieces of work are ideal to practice students skills of understanding and reading comprehension. 
Ideal to practice Past Simple, how to answer open and close questions.

Halloween Activity

The episode is quite scary and has a supernatural / ghost theme. Good to use in the halloween.

Merlin - Halloween

It is a worksheet based on the trailer the Addams Family. Best for a halloween lesson. 

In the forst exercise T activates students schemata by asking some general questiona about the The Addams Family film and in the 2nd part students fill in the gaps with the words they hear. 

The Addams family trailer

The worksheet corresponds to the `This is Halloween` song from Tim Burton`S `A Nightmare Before Christmas`. There is an accompanying video lesson and Powerpoint which can be found in my uploads or here. Sorry about the weird quality- it\'s mostly screen-shotted from the original Publisher document.



The dominoes and song are really easy. The last page was for a more advanced class.



Video Quiz

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/halloween-quiz



PowerPoint

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-powerpoints/vocabulary/halloween/halloween-movie-quiz-and-halloween-dominos/118960



1. I start with the dominoes as a warm-up and to lead-in the vocabulary. 



2. We then check the answers on the Power Point and I add extra information and drill pronunciation.



3. Students then read the questions through and watch the video, answering as they watch in groups. 



4. We then check the answers interactively by watching through the video again and tapping on the answers.

`This is Halloween` Movie Quiz and Halloween Dominos

The worksheet and vocabulary dominoes correspond to the music video for `Thriller` by Michael Jackson.

There is an accompanying video lesson and other worksheets. Sorry about the weird quality- it\'s mostly screen-shotted from the original Publisher document.



Video Quiz:

https://en.islcollective.com/video-lessons/thriller-halloween-quiz-lyrics-and-vocabulary



Answer Power Point:

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-powerpoints/vocabulary/halloween/halloween-roll-story-thriller-quiz-vocabulary-and-dominoes-a/119078



1. Lead-in: Hangman with spooky music to spell out \'Halloween\'



1. I start with the dominoes as a warm-up and to lead-in the vocabulary.



2. We then check the answers to the dominoes on the Power Point and I add extra information about each thing and drill pronunciation.



3. Students then read the quiz questions through and watch the video, answering as they watch in groups.



4. We then check the answers interactively by watching through the video again and tapping on the answers.

`Thriller` Music Video Quiz and Dominoes

This worksheet is based on the episode of The Simpsons series (s09e04 - treeouse of horror VIII). It contains 3 tasks - preparation , gap fill and true or false exercise.

Treehouse of Horror

Video or movie activity

Halloween

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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21 Halloween, Video or movie activity, Listening Comprehension English ESL worksheets pdf & doc