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Film English is an award-winning independent publisher that provides innovative, engaging and interactive ready-to-use ESL lesson plans designed around authentic short films and videos, and extensive viewing guides designed around feature-length films for English language teachers with teenage or adult students.
All Film English materials are rooted in our commitment to progressive educational and social change – our approach embeds empathy, compassion and justice as core values of teaching and learning.
Teachers can buy individual short film lesson plans and feature-length film Extensive Viewing guides.
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Alternatively, teachers can save money by taking out membership of Film English Club. Individual Membership and Institutional Membership of Film English Club allow unlimited access to all 700+ Film English lesson plans, Extensive Viewing guides and other teaching materials.
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There are 450+ short film and video lesson plans and two new lesson plans are added each week.
There are 200+ feature-length film Extensive Viewing guides and a new Extensive Viewing guide is added each week.
In addition to lesson plans and Extensive Viewing guides, there are also many other teaching resources.
You can download a free sample Extensive Viewing Guide, Lesson Plan and Teaching Resource here.
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Please note that teachers and students need to watch the feature-length films on a streaming service such as Netflix, HBO or Amazon Prime. You can find where films are available to stream in your country on Just Watch.
For obvious copyright reasons, it is not possible to watch feature-length films on the Film English website.
Film English was founded and is run by Kieran Donaghy, a freelance writer, international conference speaker and trainer. He trains teachers at The School for Training, his small specialist teacher training institute in Barcelona and online. He is the author of books for students and teachers of English as a foreign language. His publications include Films in Health Sciences Education (Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona), Film in Action (Delta Publishing), How to Write Film and Video Activities (ELT Teacher 2 Writer) , The Image in English Language Teaching (ELT Council), Language Hub (Macmillan) and Multimodality in ELT (Oxford University Press).
Kieran is the founder and organiser of the only conference exclusively on the use of images in language teaching, The Image Conference. You can find out more about me and my work at my author website.
Kieran is an experienced speaker and trainer who has given talks and workshops in many countries. If you would like to train with Kieran at The School for Training or like him to give a workshop or talk at your event then please contact him at kieran@theschoolfortraining.com.