ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on Forrest Gump

Record the director, genre, actors and release year of Forrest Gump on the film-information rules that open page one.

Write an extended first-person narrative from a chosen character's point of view, describing their thoughts, emotions, and experiences across three different scenes.

Have students complete the film-info header immediately after watching, while details like the genre and actors are still fresh.

Model the diary-writing task with one scene as a class before assigning the remaining two, since the prompt asks students to sustain a character's point of view across three diary pages.

Basic film-information recall — students record the director, genre, actors, and release year after viewing the movie.

Perspective-taking narrative writing — students write three diary pages in a chosen character's voice, describing their thoughts, emotions, and experiences in different scenes.