ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on Coco

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This three-page Coco movie guide supports middle-school intermediate ESL learners. Students record film details, new words and meanings, describe characters and place events on a timeline.

After viewing, students describe a favorite scene, explain their response and write a review. The final prompt asks for three diary pages from one character’s perspective, drawing on different scenes. Supply separate writing paper and access to the film.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students will record new vocabulary and its meaning while watching the film.
Students will take notes on characters from the film as it progresses.
Students will write a three-part diary from a chosen Coco character's point of view, capturing that character's thoughts and emotions across three scenes.

Teaching tips

Have students begin the vocabulary list and film-detail fields during the first viewing, so new words are captured in the moment rather than recalled afterward.
Have students finish watching Coco before starting the three-page character diary, since the task asks them to retell three separate scenes from a chosen character's point of view.
Assign the reflection sections as a wrap-up discussion or written response once the vocabulary and character-notes sections are complete.

Skills covered

Vocabulary acquisition — students log new words and their meanings while watching the film.
Character tracking — students take notes on figures from the film as it progresses.
Perspective-taking narrative writing — the character diary task asks students to write three diary entries in a chosen Coco character's voice, capturing their thoughts and emotions.

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How long is the character-diary writing assignment expected to be?

Students write exactly three diary pages, one for each of three different days or scenes they choose from the movie, told from their chosen character's point of view.

What else is needed?

Arrange access to Coco separately and supply paper for the three-page diary response. The download is the worksheet guide.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

W.6.3

Core concepts

Vocabulary logging
Character analysis
Personal response writing
Perspective-taking narrative writing

Topics

Coco ESL Movie Guide Character Diary

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