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A fill-in worksheet packet built around a TED Talk video that students watch outside the document, used to build ESL listening, vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills.
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A fill-in worksheet packet built around a TED Talk video that students watch outside the document, used to build ESL listening, vocabulary, speaking, and writing skills.
Use this three-page Elio film companion to collect production details, new vocabulary and meanings, and character notes. After viewing, students explain a favorite scene, write a personal review and retell three scenes or days as diary entries from a chosen character’s perspective. Use the viewing notes to support the later writing.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Charlotte Bronte and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
An ESL/EFL reading-comprehension and writing worksheet built around a feature article on Broadway musical theater (history and landmark shows such as The Lion King, Wicked, Hamilton, Frozen, and Chicago, with quoted theatergoer/actress voices), paired with comprehension/vocabulary questions and two personal-reflection essay prompts.
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - Stranger Things - Season 5 This ESL teaching resource is a 2-page printable PDF TV Series activity for "Stranger Things - Season 5" (Netflix horror coming of age TV Series) designed to support English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL) learners. This resource can be great for post TV Series…
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Sing" This ESL teaching resource is a 3-page printable PDF movie guide for "Sing" (2016 American animated Film) designed to support English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. This resource can be great for post-movie activities and is ideal for Middle School and High School students, ranging from 6th to…
A movie-guide worksheet packet built around the animated film Goat leads students through pre-viewing film details (director, genre, actors, release year), a running vocabulary log for new words and their meanings, and individual note space for each of the film's ten named characters, including Will Harris, Modo Olachenko, and Florence 'Flo' Everson. A Movie Timeline section gives students space to map out the film's events in order. The packet closes with reflection prompts — a favourite scene, why the student liked the film, and a personal review — followed by a prompt assigning three diary pages on additional paper in which students write from a chosen character's point of view across three different scenes, capturing that character's thoughts and emotions.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Dwight D. Eisenhower and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a nonfiction-style informational passage about Usain Bolt - Athletics, used to practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and extended written response in English.
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - Stranger Things - Season 3 This ESL teaching resource is a 2-page printable PDF TV Series activity for "Stranger Things - Season 3 (Netflix horror coming of age TV Series) designed to support English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL) learners. This resource can be great for post TV Series…
Organize notes about Wednesday before writing from a character’s perspective. The response activity includes series information, spaces for thirteen named characters, a timeline, and eight episode-note sections. Students can draw on those notes when developing a diary entry that reflects their chosen character’s experiences.
Students use Toy Story 5 to collect English vocabulary, character descriptions and events before writing about the film. Ten character boxes and a timeline organize observations, while favorite-scene and review frames ask for an opinion and a reason. A final prompt asks for three diary pages in a chosen character’s voice on additional writing paper; assign it as a separate writing lesson.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Caesar Augustus and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Mamma Mia" This ESL teaching resource is a 3-page printable PDF movie guide for "Mamma Mia" (2008 jukebox musical film; ABBA) designed to support English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. This resource can be great for post-movie activities and is ideal for Middle School and High School students ,…
ESL TV Series Activity Worksheets - Stranger Things - Season 1 This ESL teaching resource is a 2-page printable PDF TV Series activity for "Stranger Things - Season 1 (Netflix horror coming of age TV Series) designed to support English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL) learners. This resource can be great for post TV Series…
Use this four-page worksheet set after viewing Wednesday Season 2 to turn students’ observations into English writing. Spaces for series information, vocabulary, characters and episode summaries lead into review and creative-response work. The diary task asks for three scenes or days from one character’s viewpoint. Preview the series for your group and arrange separate viewing access before assigning the activities.
ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Zootopia 2" This English Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL TESOL) teaching resource is a 3 page printable PDF movie guide for " Zootopia 2 " (2025 Disney animated movie; animals) is designed to help English as a Second Language (ESL EFL TESOL) learners. This teaching resource can be ideal for post-movie…
Guides students through independent biographical research on Cesar Chavez and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
A double-entry journal worksheet for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 3 Scene 4, that has students use textual evidence to identify relationships, power dynamics, and dramatic irony, including an explicit definition of dramatic irony and verbal irony.
The three-page Zootopia guide combines film information with space for ten new words and their meanings, notes on ten named characters and a movie timeline. The final page asks for a favorite scene, reasons for that choice, a personal review and three diary entries from a character’s perspective. Provide extra paper for the longer diary task.
ESL Netflix Series Activity Worksheets on "Heartstopper: Season 1" This ESL teaching resource is a 4-page printable PDF Netflix series activity for "Heartstopper: Season 1" (2022 Netflix coming-of-age series based on Alice Oseman's Graphic Novel) designed to support English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. This resource can be great…
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a passage about Knitting as a hobby, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and formal/creative writing skills in English.
Guides students through independent biographical research on Dante Alighieri and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
A life-skills/financial-literacy math worksheet teaching students to calculate property tax using percent-to-decimal conversion, in the context of comparing real property tax rates across countries.