
Extensive Viewing Guide: The King’s Speech
This B2-level ESL resource is an extensive viewing guide based on the film ‘The King’s Speech’. It 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.
Check out the lesson planGet a new 27-page Extensive Viewing guide Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush 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 synopsis with a glossary
• Pre-viewing discussion questions
• A glossary of 125 key words, phrasal verbs and expressions with phonetic spelling used in the film, with 375 example sentences.
• Post-viewing discussion questions
• Post-viewing writing and videoing tasks
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What Is Extensive Viewing?
Extensive viewing is an approach to language learning that involves regular viewing of L2 (second language) television or films, inside and outside the classroom, with the aim of improving vocabulary and overall language skills. Extensive viewing is a proven and effective method for language acquisition. It allows learners to immerse themselves in real-world English in a natural and enjoyable way. Extensive viewing encourages students to watch full-length films and absorb the language as it is genuinely spoken.
Through this method, learners are exposed to authentic vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, regional accents and rich cultural references. These are often difficult to teach through traditional classroom materials.
Why Use an Extensive Viewing Guide?
By watching a film from start to finish, learners can better understand not only the words but also the emotion and context behind them. They see how tone, gesture and facial expression combine with spoken language to convey meaning. This makes the language more memorable and meaningful.
An extensive viewing guide maximises these benefits. It offers a clear structure, with pre-viewing, while-viewing and post-viewing activities. These tasks help learners build expectations, set goals and reflect on what they’ve learned.
In addition, each guide includes:
- Viewing tips
- A summary of each film section with a glossary of key words and expressions
- Comprehension questions
- Critical thinking tasks
- Multimodal tasks
These features help students stay engaged while reinforcing language skills.
Who Is It For?
This extensive viewing guide is designed for Intermediate (B1) to Advanced (C1) learners. It is suitable for both classroom use and independent study. Learners can improve:
- Listening comprehension by hearing natural speech
- Pronunciation by noticing intonation and stress
- Vocabulary through real-world examples in context
- Speaking and writing with discussion and creative tasks
- Multimodal literacy through viewing tasks and follow-up work
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Whether used in the classroom or for independent study, this extensive viewing guide helps learners not just understand English—but experience it as it is really spoken in everyday life.
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