ESL Movie Guide Worksheets - Toy Story 5

Ten named character boxes, a ten-word vocabulary log with a matching meanings column, a movie timeline and four written response tasks make up a blank-frame film guide for English language learners watching Toy Story 5.
Year levels
Years 7–12
Pages
3
File type
PDF
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Formal Writing, Creative Writing, ESL, Vocabulary, Writing, Language Development, English
Topic
ESL, English Second Language
Resource types
Writing Prompts, Worksheets
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Australian Curriculum content descriptions
AC9E10LE08 — create

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About this resource

This three-page printable PDF accompanies Toy Story 5 for English learners in Years 7–12. The vocabulary and response frames suit intermediate to advanced learners; provide language support or select fewer prompts when adapting it for other groups.

Within this ESL EFL Movie Guide on "Toy Story 5" (Pixar Animated Film) ESL EFL TESOL teachers can find the following English Second or Foreign Language (ESL - EFL - TESOL - TEFL) 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 EFL 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 "Toy Story 5" (Pixar Animated Film) movie guide is designed to create an enjoyable and stimulating learning experience for intermediate advanced ESL students.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Record a film's director, genre, cast and release year from its titles and credits

  • Collect ten unfamiliar words heard in the film and write a meaning for each

  • Describe ten named characters in a few lines apiece, distinguishing who each one is

  • Give a personal opinion in writing — a favourite scene, why it appealed, and an overall review

  • Write in role, retelling three scenes from a chosen character's point of view with their thoughts and feelings

Teaching tips

  • The vocabulary section is two matched columns, so it is meant to be filled during viewing and completed afterwards; agree with the class when to pause

  • Ten character boxes is a lot for one student, so splitting the page across pairs or groups and pooling the descriptions afterwards keeps the task moving

  • The credits header can be completed straight from the opening or closing titles, which makes it a settling task before the film starts

  • The diary task is the only extended piece and asks for three pages, so it works better as homework or a following lesson than as a post-viewing filler

  • Every section is a blank frame rather than a question, so the difficulty can be set by how much detail is required rather than by changing the sheet

Skills covered

  • Vocabulary capture in context — students log ten new words heard during the film and supply a meaning for each in the matching column.

  • Character description — ten boxes carry a named character apiece, so students write short descriptions that distinguish Buzz Lightyear from Woody, Forky from Atlas, and so on.

  • Sequencing events — a Movie Timeline section asks students to lay out the film's events in order rather than summarise them in prose.

  • Opinion writing — three linked frames move students from naming a favourite scene to giving reasons and then to a full personal review.

  • Writing in role — the diary task requires three pages from one character's point of view, capturing that character's thoughts, emotions and experiences across three different scenes.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Is the film or three blank diary pages included?

No. The download is a three-page response guide. Arrange film access separately and supply extra writing paper for the requested three diary entries.

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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

Australian Curriculum content descriptions

  • AC9E10LE08 — create and edit literary texts with a sustained “voice”, selecting and adapting text structures, literary devices, and language, auditory and visual features for purposes and audiences

Core concepts

  • Movie guide

  • Vocabulary log

  • Character description

  • Point of view writing

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