Name: ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1"
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ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1"

This ESL teaching resource is a 3-page printable PDF movie guide for "Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" (2014 Dystopian Young Adult film based on Suzanne Collins' novels) 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 7th to 12th grade. It's a versatile tool suitable for newcomers and any English language learners, making it an excellent choice to use in ESL classrooms, language centers, or by tutors worldwide.

Within this ESL Movie Guide on "Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" (2014 Dystopian Young Adult film based on Suzanne Collins' novels), there are included the following film related activities:

General Movie Information – Students fill in key details about the film, including the director, genre, and plot summary.
Vocabulary Builder – A dedicated section for noting new words and phrases, expanding students’ English lexicon.
Character Analysis – Students describe the main characters, helping them practice descriptive language and comprehension.
Movie Timeline Activity – Students arrange scenes in chronological order to improve their understanding of the storyline.
Favorite Scene Reflection – A fun writing exercise where students describe and explain their favorite moments from the film.
Movie Review Writing – Learners express their opinions in a structured review, enhancing their persuasive and evaluative writing skills.
Creative Writing Exercise – 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 "Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" (2014 Dystopian Young Adult film based on Suzanne Collins' novels) movie guide is designed to create an enjoyable and stimulating learning experience for intermediate advanced ESL learners.

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Record a film's director, genre, cast and release year in written English for ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1".
Write in the first person as a chosen character, retelling scenes from that character's perspective rather than describing them from outside
Plan and sustain a piece of writing across three separate diary entries, each covering a different day or scene

Teaching tips

Give out the opening page before the film starts - its fields and its two ten-item lists are laid out for recording as the film runs, not for reconstructing afterwards
The diary task needs a lesson of its own, since it asks for three entries covering three different scenes rather than three paragraphs on the same one
There is a lot of ruled space here - twenty numbered lines on the opening page and twenty-seven more on the closing one - so the guide can carry a viewing lesson and a follow-up writing session between them
Because the task turns on the character a student connected with, it is worth asking for that choice out loud before the writing starts, so nobody stalls on picking one

Skills covered

Structured note-taking while viewing - the opening page fixes what to record from the film, from its director and release year to two ten-item lists filled in as it plays.
Point-of-view writing - the closing task asks the student to write as a character from the film rather than about that character.
Sustained writing across several entries - three diary entries covering three different scenes require organisation across a whole piece, not a single paragraph.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How is the closing writing task structured?

As three separate diary entries rather than one continuous piece. Students choose a character they connected with, and each entry covers a different day or scene from the film, retold in that character's voice with their thoughts, emotions and experiences.

How much writing space do the three pages give?

The pages are ruled throughout. The first carries four labelled fields plus twenty numbered lines; the last carries blocks of four, four and eight lines, then eleven more under the diary prompt - forty-seven ruled lines in total across the two written-on pages.