ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Spirited Away" - Studio Ghibli
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- Grades 7–12, Middle School, High School
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- 3
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- ELA, Language Development, Vocabulary, ESL, Writing, Formal Writing, Creative Writing
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- ESL, English Second Language
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ESL Movie Guide Worksheets on "Spirited Away" - Studio Ghibli
This English Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL TESOL) teaching resource is a 3 page printable PDF movie guide for "Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli" (2001 Japanese animated film by Studio Ghibli; Academy Award) is designed to help English as a Second Language (ESL EFL TESOL) learners. This teaching resource can be ideal for post-movie activities and is ideal for Middle School and High School students, from 7th to 12th grade. This ESL EFL TESOL (English Second or Foreign Language) Movie Guide Activity can be great for newcomers and any English language learners, making it an amazing teaching toolbox to use in ESL EFL classrooms, language centers, or by tutors around the World.
Within this ESL EFL Movie Guide on "Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli" (2001 Japanese animated film by Studio Ghibli; Academy Award), ESL EFL TESOL teachers can find the following English Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL TESOL) 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.
Favorite Scene Reflection – A writing activity where students describe and explain their favorite 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 "Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli" (2001 Japanese animated film by Studio Ghibli; Academy Award) movie guide is designed to create an enjoyable and stimulating learning experience for intermediate advanced ESL students.
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Learning objectives
Recall and record basic factual information about a film (director, genre, cast, release year) using complete written responses.
Describe a fictional character's traits and role using descriptive English.
Write from a character's first-person point of view, expressing that character's thoughts and feelings about specific events in the story.
Teaching tips
Preview the character list with students before the character-analysis page, since some names (e.g., Chichiyaku, Aniyaku, Aogaeru) refer to minor characters that intermediate learners may not immediately recall.
Have students complete the film-information and character sections in pairs to build vocabulary through discussion, then complete the diary-writing activity individually.
Model one diary entry as a class first, since writing convincingly from a character's point of view is a more advanced task than the earlier fill-in sections.
Skills covered
Descriptive character writing — students use English to describe ten distinct characters' traits and roles after watching the film.
Point-of-view narrative writing — the diary activity asks students to write three connected entries in first person, staying in a specific character's voice across different scenes.
Structured recall and response — the film-information and ten-item list sections build the habit of giving complete, specific written answers rather than one-word responses.
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What does the main creative writing task ask students to do?
Imagine themselves as a character from the film they connected with, then write three diary entries — one per page — each retelling a different day or scene from that character's point of view, including their thoughts and feelings.
Which characters does the character-analysis section cover?
Ten named characters from the film: Chihiro Ogino/Sen, Lin, Haku/Spirit of the Kohaku River, Chichiyaku, Yubaba, Aniyaku, Zeniba, No-Face, Kamaji, and Aogaeru, each with its own blank space for a description.
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