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Film English is the largest online resource bank of short film lesson plans, feature-length film viewing guides and other teaching resources for English language teachers.
Teachers can buy individual lesson plans and viewing guides.
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There are 120+ short film lesson plans and two new lesson plans are added each week.
There are 70+ feature-length film viewing guides and a new viewing guides is added each week.
In addition to lesson plans and Viewing Guides, there are also many other teaching resources.
You can download a free sample Viewing Guide, Lesson Plan and Teaching Resource here.
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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 Film in Action (Delta Publishing), How to Write Film and Video Activities (ELT Teacher 2 Writer) and Films in Health Sciences Education (Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona), and The Image in English Language Teaching (ELT Council).
Kieran is the founder and organiser of the only conference exclusively on the use of images in language teaching, The Image Conference. He is also the co-founder of the Visual Arts Circle a professional community of practice for language education professionals interested in the use of the visual arts in language teaching. 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.