Self Questions
These 90 questions help English language students activate their background knowledge, make predictions and a personal empathic response to a film text.
ESL Teaching Resources
Setting Questions
These 30 generic questions help English language students to analyse and talk about settings in film texts.
Seven-stage Extensive Viewing Framework
The Seven-stage Extensive Viewing Framework is designed to be used by English language students who want to improve their English through watching feature-length films.
Seven-stage Filmmaking Framework
This is a very simple seven-stage filmmaking framework which makes film and video creation much less intimidating and more accessible for both teachers and students.
Short film sound grid activity sheet
This activity sheet helps English language students analyse and talk about the role sound plays in a short film.
Short Film Viewing Guide
This viewing guide can be used with any short film to help students become more active and critical viewers of media through reflection on and discussion of a carefully selected series pre-viewing, viewing and post-viewing questions.
Sound Questions
These 50 generic questions help English language students analyse and talk about the role sound plays in film texts.
Story Questions
These 50 generic questions help English language students to analyse and talk about the stories in film texts.
The 5Ss and 5Cs Framework
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.
Trailer activity sheet
This activity sheet can be used with any trailer to help students analyse and interpret a short visual text, and to become more active and critical viewers of media rather than just passive consumers of media through reflection on and discussion of a carefully selected series of viewing questions.
Video ads activity sheet
This activity sheet can be used with any video ad to help students become more active and critical viewers of media rather than just passive consumers of media through reflection on and discussion of a carefully selected series of viewing questions.