Movies brainstorms and speaking activities
1 Movies brainstorm and speaking activity
This is a movies language exercise for English language learners to practice the present simple tense. Students try to identify movie genres and brainstorm the names of movies for each genre. Then they write questions about movies and ask a classmate.
Movie brainstorm and speaking activity (PDF)
2 Write a conversation exercise: going out to a movie
“Going Out” is another good conversation topic. When students write these dialogues in pairs or small groups they automatically fall into a role play mode without any direction from the teacher.
3 Elements of movies vocabulary
In this exercise, students learn language used to discuss movies. Students match the vocabulary to the pictures and then ask their classmates the questions at the bottom of the page.
Elements of movies vocabulary(PDF)
4 Elements of movies qualities
This exercise explores the language of movies more deeply. Students may have to think a bit more to match the words and expressions to the pictures.
Elements of movies qualities (PDF)
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