Film English

Teach. Engage. Inspire. Through Authentic Video & Film.

Film English is the leading resource for multimodal teaching in ELT, offering modern, engaging Video Lesson Plans and Extensive Viewing Guides that help students develop language and multimodal literacy skills through authentic video and film content.

Learn with authentic videos & films

Our Video Lesson Plans are based on real-world short videos, while our Extensive Viewing Guides explore contemporary feature-length films.

Comprehensive language development through authentic videos & films

Our Video Lesson Plans and Extensive Viewing Guides support students in building all key language skills—viewing, listening, speaking, reading, writing and visually representing.

Well-structured lessons for effective learning

Our lessons are built on our exclusive Multimodal Methodology and follow a clear, methodical structure with distinct pre-viewing, viewing and post-viewing stages. This structured progression maximises student engagement and strengthens communication skills and vocabulary throughout the learning process.

Students increase their vocabulary with a structured approach to authentic language

Our materials help students expand their vocabulary effectively by following a structured learning process. Before viewing videos and films, students engage with a glossary to familiarise themselves with key words and phrases, ensuring better comprehension. After viewing, they actively use the target vocabulary in speaking and writing tasks, reinforcing their learning and making new words and phrases a natural part of their communication.

Teach and engage students with contemporary & practical topics

Our materials explore fresh, relevant and real-world topics that go beyond traditional ESL resources.

Extensive & growing library of engaging lessons

Access a vast collection of 500+ Video Lesson Plans in the Film English Club library, with 12 new lessons added each month—plus a free lesson every month! Explore 200+ Extensive Viewing Guides, with fresh content added regularly, and enhance learning further with 100+ Film Study Worksheets. With our ever-expanding library, you’ll always have engaging, inspiring, high-quality materials at your fingertips.

Flexible Access: Purchase individual lessons or a subscription

Choose the option that suits you best—purchase individual Video Lesson Plans, Extensive Viewing Guides and Film Study Worksheets or unlock unlimited access to our entire materials library with a Film English Club subscription.

What Teachers Are Saying

“I think that your website is extremely creative and the activities are thoroughly engaging.  The lessons are consistently great and I’m always impressed with every new post. Your website deserves to be recognised and hopefully it encourages and inspires other teachers to create similar activities.”

Andy Webster

“I’ve been teaching English for more than 20 years and strongly believe that it’s impossible to teach any subject (I mean Language, History, even Maths) without teaching warm attitude towards other people – no matter how it happens. You give me (as a teacher) a great opportunity of using this film during my lessons. Thanks a lot!!! God bless you! You are really sharing not only educational but humane and positive-thinking way of teaching as well.”

Tatiana Fedorova

“I just love your website! So creative, such good ideas and on top of it you post lesson plans that are different from the ordinary. Thank you for sharing these great ideas!”

Anabella Sala

Latest

B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Be Empathetic

Lesson Summary:This ESL video lesson plan for Upper Intermediate to Advanced learners is built around a short video titled STOP making it about YOU and explores empathy and how to be empathetic in personal and professional contexts. The lesson guides learners through discussion, quotation analysis, video viewing, comprehension tasks, roleplay and an extended article reading […]

C1 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How to Improve Your Relationships

Lesson Summary:This Advanced (C1) to Proficient (C2) ESL video lesson plan is built around a thought-provoking short video titled Five Ways to Improve Your Relationships. The lesson explores relationships, human connection and self-awareness, encouraging learners to reflect on communication, conflict and emotional honesty. Through viewing and discussion, roleplay, vocabulary development and an extended reading article, […]

B2 ESL Video Lesson Plan: How Social Media Affects Our Emotions

Lesson Summary:This Intermediate to Upper Intermediate ESL video lesson plan is built around the short video Is Social Media Messing with Our Emotions? and explores how social media shapes emotional experience in modern life. Learners engage with thought-provoking viewing tasks, discussion, roleplay and an extended reading text titled Designing Social Media for Emotional Well-being. The […]

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