Category: Childhood

‘Billy Elliot’ Viewing Guide

Published on January 25, 2021

By kierandonaghy

A 26-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-nominated film Billy Elliot starring Julie Walters and Jamie Bell 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.     The viewing guide includes: • Viewing recommendations • A film […]

‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ Viewing Guide

Published on January 11, 2021

By kierandonaghy

Get a new 25-page Extensive Viewing guide to the film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas starring starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Vera Farmiga and David Thewlis 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.     […]

‘Wonder’ Viewing Guide

Published on November 18, 2020

By kierandonaghy

Get a new 31-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Oscar-nominated film Wonder starring Julia Roberts, Owen Williams and Jacob Temblay 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.     The viewing guide includes: • Viewing recommendations […]

‘Boyhood’ Viewing Guide

Published on October 1, 2020

By kierandonaghy

Get a new 32-page Extensive Viewing guide to the Boyhood the Oscar-winning film starring Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke 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.   The viewing guide includes: • Viewing recommendations • A […]

‘In a Heartbeat’ Lesson Plan

Published on August 6, 2017

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled In a Heartbeat and the theme of love. Students learn and practice expressions using the word “heart”, watch a short film trailer, predict and write a story, watch and discuss a short film, and watch and discuss a video in which elderly people give […]

‘Albert and Aidan Sykes’ Lesson Plan

Published on January 15, 2017

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Albert and Aidan Sykes, and the themes of family and racism. In the lesson students do a dictation, predict the answer to questions, listen to an interview, answer comprehension questions, watch two short videos, and speak about the videos.     Language level: Intermediate […]

‘Taking Flight’ Lesson Plan

Published on October 31, 2016

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Taking Flight and the themes of childhood games, grandparents and grandchildren. Students watch a short film, predict a story, retell a story, discuss the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, and discuss a short film.     Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) […]

‘My earliest childhood memory…’ Lesson Plan

Published on October 14, 2016

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film by titled My earliest Childhood Memory, and the theme of childhood memories. Students describe their earliest childhood memory and listen to other students describe theirs, watch a short film and reconstruct the narration, and talk about other childhood memories.     Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) […]

‘Penelope in the Treehouse’ Lesson Plan

Published on September 5, 2016

By kierandonaghy

This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Penelope in the Treehouse and the theme of families. In the lesson students watch but don’t hear the start of a short film, decide what is happening and what the characters are saying, predict the rest of the story and write a story.   […]