A selection of English ESL movies & tv shows printables with general vocabulary practice, vocabulary practice

This is an easy reading comprehension activity about the popular Disney film "Bambi". Students read the passage and do a true-false exercise. Finally, they learn two idioms with the word "deer".

Bambi - Famous Book & Movie Character - Everyone's Favorite

This worksheet is really useful in order to make students practice the "SIMPLE PAST." WIth it, teachers will be able to see if students really know the use of the regular and irregular verbs. 



This printable paper can be used for kids because it has some pictures about SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

SpongeBob + Friends Invite You To The Simple Past Tense

This is an easy RC activity about a pupular Disney film. Students complete the passage with the missing words, answer the questions, and complete a few sentences with some words from the text. Key included.

Easy reading - One Hundred and One Dalmatians

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB TO BE - NEGATIVE. You might want to review the names of the Disney characters before completing the worksheet or the quiz.

The Verb To Be Negative Fill-Ins - Disney Theme

MOVIE GENRES CARDS (12 CARDS). (Action, romantic, thriller, etc.) The task is: "Look at this cinema-goer, and guess what genre of film they are watching." This is an alternative take on the common task where students have to figure out what film belongs to what genre. Here the cards depict cinema goers whose character or eyes and facial gestures reveal what they are watching. Enjoy! Bless up, Kisdobos :)

Fun Movie Genres Cards

Match and practice the irregular verbs and time Enjoy :) Everybody loves the Simpsons. This worksheet is illustrated. Students must choose the correct verb and then write it in the correct tense.

Guess What The Simpsons Did Last Sunday

Try this fantastic video activity on future predictions. The activity is an activation task. It should be done after students have been taught how to use the various ways to make predictions, including "might..., will..., and be going to...".



Find the video:

On YouTube, by searching for “English Through Videos: Future Predictions - Family Guy”.

Or by using the link below. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_qSRKZmMDU


Instructions:



- Watch the video.

- When the video pauses, make predictions about what you think will happen next. 

- It can be done as a speaking activity (in pairs) and/or as a writing activity using the worksheet.

Future Predictions Video Activity - Family Guy

This ESL gap-filling activity allows for building up skills in recognising and applying correctly a number of commonly used words, which are often confused because of being pronounced similarly whilst their spelling is different, thus spelling is the central point of the activity. Using capital letters for proper nouns is also addressed at few points.



The answer sheet is provided.



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Going to the cinema. Vocabulary builder

There are 2 dialogs. First is "Inviting someone to the cinema" and second is "At the ticket office". This ESL worksheet also includes vocabulary for types (genres) of films. After reading the dialogs students can do role play and practice inviting each other to the cinema and buying tickets at the box office.

Two Dialogues - Going To The Cinema - Future Plans with Be Going To

Activity to practise irregular verbs in the past while serving as a trigger for discussing the plot.It's really helpful if you include the solutions in the resource as it makes it easier for us in class to check the answers. Also, the solutions make the resource suitable for self-study.

Hotel Transylvania - Plot Summary - Reading + Grammar

This worksheet introduces students to irregular simple past verbs and asking questions in past form using a video clip from Kung Fu Panda. It includes listening and grammar exercises and a follow-up ask related to the topic! Feel free to modify and share your experiences using this worksheet. 

Kung Fu Panda Introduces You to Past Tense Verbs

I love Simpsons is a worksheet series where teachers and students can find a little grammar guide (written in Spanish) and some exercises to practise with our favourite Simpsons characters.



In this worksheet we can study the Present Simple and the Present Continuous with all the toys in The Simpsons. Have fun! :)

The Simpsons - Articles: A/An/The or No Article - For Spanish Speakers

General vocabulary practice

Movies & TV shows

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 express likes and dislikes in English

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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

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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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46 Movies & TV shows, General vocabulary practice, Vocabulary Practice English ESL worksheets pdf & doc