Writing

A Collection of 6 Extensive Viewing Guides for thrillers.

• Gone Girl
• Mystic River
• Nightcrawler
• Searching
• The Circle
• The Ghost Writer

An 60-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-nominated film Tick, Tick... Boom! starring Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp and Robin de Jesús for English language students who want to learn English through watching films. The guide will help students improve their English vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking.

This ESL lesson is designed around an inspiring short film about what we do in our everyday lives. In the lesson students watch and discuss a short film, and write three to do lists. The lesson also encourages students to reflect on their own language learning and how they can improve it.

A 84-page Extensive Viewing guide to the biographical drama film Tolkien starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney and Derek Jacobi for English language students who want to learn English through watching films. The guide will help students improve their English vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and speaking.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Touchable Memories and the theme of photos, memories and 3D printers. Students talk about photos, describe a photo which is important to them and describe the memories it brings back, describe the character of five people in a photo, watch a short film and make notes, answer comprehension questions, speculate about how blind people ‘see’ photos, analyse a short film, perform a roleplay, discuss different uses of 3D printers and reflect on the lesson.

This ready-to-use ESL video lesson plan is built around the short film At What Point Does Optimism Become Unhealthy? and explores optimism, toxic positivity and emotional literacy. Designed for Upper Intermediate (B2) to Advanced (C1) learners, the lesson develops vocabulary related to emotional experience and habits while strengthening viewing, listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. Through guided discussion, quotation analysis, prediction tasks, roleplay and critical reflection, students deepen their understanding of emotional culture and build greater emotional literacy.

An engaging ESL film worksheet titled ‘Trailer activity sheet’ is designed to help learners develop key language skills—listening, viewing, speaking, reading, writing, and visually representing—through guided discussion, roleplay, vocabulary building, and engaging classroom activities.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Rise Up and the theme of travel. Students talk about travel, plan a trip around the world, explain their world trip to a partner, watch a short film, describe places in a short film, analyse a short film and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Ultra Marathoner and the theme of marathons. Students learn vocabulary related to marathon and abstract nouns to describe qualities, talk about marathon, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Umbrella. In the lesson students watch and discuss a short film, predict different parts of a story, and write a story.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled What is Unconscious Bias? and the themes of bias and unconscious bias. Students learn vocabulary related to bias and unconscious bias, talk about bias and unconscious bias, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video, develop critical thinking skills by exploring issues raised in a short video, read an article, answer comprehension questions, discuss topics raised in an article, perform a roleplay, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Autism Spectrum Disorder: 10 Things You Should Know, a short film titled Can you make it to the end? and the theme of the autism spectrum and autistic people. Students learn vocabulary related to the autism spectrum, talk about the autism spectrum, read statements about the autism spectrum and decide if they are true of false, watch a short video to check their responses, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Accepting My Blindness and the themes of blindness and visual impairment. Students learn vocabulary related to blindness and visual impairment, talk about blindness and visual impairment, write a narrative, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short film, watch a second short film, summarise the message of a short film, and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Unexpected Guest and the theme of Christmas. Students learn vocabulary related to Christmas, talk about Christmas, predict the content of a short film, watch a short film, answer comprehension questions, discuss a short film and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a Coca-Cola AI-generated Christmas ad titled Unexpected Santa and the themes of Christmas, Christmas ads and AI-generated media. Students learn vocabulary related to Christmas, talk about Christmas and Christmas ads, discuss quotations about Christmas, watch a Christmas ad, answer comprehension questions, analyse a Christmas ad, develop critical thinking skills by exploring issues raised in a Christmas ad, perform a roleplay and reflect on the lesson.

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Why the U.S. Should Provide Universal Basic Income and the themes of inequality and universal basic income. Students learn vocabulary related to universal basic income, talk about inequality in the USA, talk about universal basic income, predict the content of a short video, watch a short video, answer comprehension questions, analyse a short video, write about what they have learned from viewing a short video and reflect on the lesson.