Feature-length film, Short film

The "Tell me" approach  is a ‘filmtalk’ strategy which involves individuals thinking about films, sharing their ideas with a group, and listening and responding to what others think. It can be used to help students think and talk about any films  that students have viewed.  

These 95 generic character analysis questions help English language students understand and talk about the characters they encounter in films and other texts.

An engaging ESL film worksheet titled ‘Film Language Glossary’ 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 worksheet can be used with any short film or feature-length film, to encourage students to speculate and make predictions about what is going to happen.

These 90 questions help English language students activate their background knowledge, make predictions and a personal empathic response to a film text.

These 30 generic questions help English language students to analyse and talk about settings in film texts.

These 50 generic questions help English language students analyse and talk about the role sound plays in film texts.

These 50 generic questions help English language students to analyse and talk about the stories in film texts.

The 5Ss (Story, Setting, Sound, Social Issues, Self) and 5Cs (Character, Camera, Colour, Composition, Culture and Language) provide an effective framework in language education for analysis, scaffolding pre-viewing and post-viewing discussion and focusing attention on the different modes used in film. The 13-page framework provides generic discussion questions for each of the 10 categories to help English language students analyse and talk about films more effectively.