Discussing Film and TV
Discussing Film and TV
Discussing Film and TV
This is an advanced-level PDF worksheet about discussing film and TV which contains speaking, listening, reading, and writing elements. It contains a lot of high-level vocabulary for describing movies and TV, and gives students plenty of opportunities to discuss their own tastes and preferences in movies.
The worksheet starts with a blurb for a cheesy horror movie which students must read and identify film vocabulary such as ‘spoiler’ and ‘blockbuster.’ After this the class will read an opinion about the cheesy horror movie in the first exercise which describes the basic plot of the movie, and answer comprehension questions about the opinion.
Next, the class will read a quick explanation of the two tenses that are often used to describe the plot of a movie or TV show (past simple and present simple), and then write a description of a well-known movie. The students will then read what they have written to the class and see if the class can guess which movie they are talking about.
After this students will look at the storyboard for a scene in an action movie and describe what happens in the scene. This gives the students a chance to be creative, because the storyboard could be interpreted in multiple ways.
After this students will learn a series of words and phrases that are useful for describing movies (gritty, predictable, hilarious, etc.) and then listen to an audio of a man describing his taste in movies. Students will listen to this and answer a series of comprehension questions.
The class will then read blurbs about 6 different movies in 6 different genres, listen to the audio again, and decide which of the 6 movies the man would best enjoy and why.
Finally, the students must discuss in groups which of the 6 movies they will go and watch in a cinema.
There is also an optional homework exercise in which students must research a film and then make a presentation about it to the class describing it’s plot, setting, cast, etc.
The transcript for the audio file can be found at the end of the Teacher’s Version (TV)
