ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Minions & Monsters"
- Year levels
- Years 6–9
- Pages
- 3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Writing, ESL, Vocabulary, Writing, Language Development, English
- Topic
- ESL, English Second Language
- Resource types
- Writing Prompts, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
This English Second or Foreign Language (ESL) teaching resource is a 3 page printable PDF movie guide for "Minions & Monsters" (2026 animated film with Minions; Despicable Me) is designed to help English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. This teaching resource can be ideal for post movie activities and is ideal for lower secondary and secondary school students, from 7th to Year 12. This ESL (English Second or Foreign Language) Movie Guide Activity can be great for newcomers and any English language learners, making it an amazing teaching toolbox to use in ESL - EFL classrooms, language centres, or by tutors around the World.
Within this ESL Movie Guide on "Minions & Monsters" (2026 animated film with Minions; Despicable Me) teachers can find the following English Second or Foreign Language (ESL) film activities:
General Information – Students fill in key details about the film, including the director, genre, release year etc.
Vocabulary Builder – An activity dedicated to new words and phrases, to improve ESL students’ English vocabulary
Character Analysis – Students describe the main characters, helping them practice descriptive language and comprehension.
Movie Timeline Activity – Students arrange scenes in chronological order to enhance their understanding of the storyline.
Favourite Scene Reflection – A writing activity where students describe and explain their favourite moments from the film.
Movie Review Writing – Learners express their opinions in a structured review, improving their evaluative writing skills.
Creative Writing Activity – Students imagine themselves as one of the characters and write three diary entries from that character’s perspective, deepening their connection with the storyline.
This "Minions & Monsters" (2026 animated film with Minions; Despicable Me) movie guide is designed to create an enjoyable and stimulating learning experience for intermediate advanced ESL students.
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Learning objectives
Students will record new vocabulary encountered while watching a film, along with each word's meaning.
Students will identify and describe the film's main characters using short written notes.
Students will write a personal review evaluating the film and explaining what they liked and why.
Students will complete an extended creative-writing task, authoring a three-entry diary from a chosen character's point of view.
Teaching tips
Pause the film at key vocabulary moments so students can log new words directly onto the worksheet as they hear them.
Provide the character list before viewing so students can take notes per character during the movie rather than trying to recall all eight afterward.
Provide separate writing paper for the three-day character diary, assigned after the film-details and vocabulary sections.
Skills covered
Vocabulary logging while viewing — students record 10 new words and their meanings encountered in the film.
Character description — students take notes on 8 named characters as they appear on screen.
Personal response writing — students write a review explaining what they liked about the film and why.
Perspective-taking creative writing — students write a 3-entry diary from a chosen character's point of view, retelling scenes in that character's voice.
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