A selection of English ESL love, romance, dating printables with video or movie activity, listening comprehension

This is a worksheet based on an Oscar-winning short film by Disney called: FEAST. The video can be found on youtube. 

The worksheet consists of a short drawing activity (a picture dictionary), a true or false and ordering pictures and events.

FEAST: Disney Pixar short film

Using the song You Were Always On My Mind by Elvis Presley, students indentify the correct verb forms in a gap fill exercise. Includes hints in brackets. Be sure to check out the link marked "Just for fun" :) There is a newer version sung by The Pet Shop Boys.

Always On My Mind (Modals, Past Simple & Present Perfect)

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 "Dating / The Art of Dating".

The Art of Dating - Listening Comprehension + Speaking (B2)

a listening activity for students to practice their skills and increase their vocabulary. Helps students to see common expressions in English. Students may listen to it twice and fill in the missing words.

Cheerleader by OMI

This is another video activity. There are some discussion questions to get the topic under way and prepare the students for the language therein. It's a topic which should appeal to nearly everyone. 



There are some tasks to do while they're listening and a vocab focus on the verb get and it's different meanings, which I used in conjunction with an activity from Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate but you could do without it. If you know the different meanings the verb has you could draw your own diagram for the Ss to copy and use. 

There is another optional vocab focus on phrasal verbs used in the video if you'd like to work on that.



The video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFJFfegkj4 

Can Men and Women be JUST friends?

This is another video activity where Ss complete listening comprehension tasks after discussing the issue. It's an issue which most people should be interested in and be able to speak about. It includes some typical quotes that people say to people getting over a breakup in English and some fantastic colloquial language.

Get Through a Breakup

a listening activity for students to learn vocabulary and new expressions in English. Students may listen to the song twice and complete. They can join in singing after completion. Can be used as a discussion starter.

Cupid by Sam Cooke

Great activity to practice the listening. 

Good to use with Adults since Peanuts is a little bit old and they may not know the characters.

Students need to know the "should + PP" and 2nd conditional structure.



The video is on youtube: Lucy loves Schroeder

Lucy loves Schroeder - 2nd Conditional

a listening activity for students to learn vocabulary and new expressions in English. Students may listen to the song twice and complete. They can join in singing after completion. Can be used as a discussion starter

God Blessed the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts

A performer called Victor Borge, came up with this as a comedy routine, but its use as a teaching aid should not be overlooked.



The basic idea is, for every punctuation mark, full stop, comma etc, you make a funny noise that mimics the shape, so full stop is a short sound, like a beat boxed bass drum! A comma on the other hand would be like a creaky door quickly opening – you get the idea.



Be creative and think of your own or better still, get the students to come up with their own or just watch Victor Borge in action on Youtube and copy his sounds. Doing it this way may be a bit noisy but if you get the students to make the shape in the air, it is reinforcing learning –and fun too!

Victor Borges - Phonetic Punctuation

There are several exercises which are based on the contemporary song Love Profusion by Madonna. 

Exercise 1: Gap Fill

Exercise 2: Dictionary Work

Exercise 3: Phoneme Sort (/ʃ/ vs. /ʒ/ vs. /s/ vs. /z/)



Plus several extension exercises.

ʃ vs. ʒ vs. s vs. z - Love Profusion pronunciation worksheet

I taught this listening using as a warmer a video on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQ6kJ2cYFw. I also used parts 3 and 6. They are only a minute or so each. There is a short reading about Satchmo at the end.

Listening to Louis Armstrong

Video or movie activity

Love, romance, dating

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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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

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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