ESL WORKSHEET - Movie industry

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

FILMS - MOVIES

LinguaHouse

Sep. 26, 2025

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)
Type of language: General English
Tags: Describing Films/Movies; Entertainment; The Media; Developing an Argument; Giving Opinions; People and Places; Article Based; Vocabulary Lesson; Useful Vocabulary; 13-15 Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old
Publication date: 09/26/2025

This lesson focuses on the movie industry. The warm-up centers around different movie genres, leading into a listening task where students answer questions about the opinions of three individuals on various movies. The lesson also covers movie collocations, a reading task on the rise of streaming services, and concludes with a crossword activity to review the vocabulary. (by Joey Vaughan-Birch)

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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

Speaker 1: Working on movie sets can sometimes feel like you’re in a circus. There are a thousand different things happening at once, and I’m right in the center of it all. I try to keep my cool, and I’m definitely better at dealing with stress than I used to be, but it is challenging. Everyone has a question or an opinion, and it’s impossible to please them all. I have a few assistants who help me, but, at the end of the day, it’s me who has to make the big decisions about where and how we shoot. The most challenging part is not dealing with actors’ egos – most of them are pretty normal - it’s mother nature. We can spend days, sometimes weeks, setting up a scene outside, but, if it starts pouring, you just have to sit there and wait. And, like a wiser man than me once said, “time is money”.
Speaker 2: I struggled for years trying to become an actor. I went to audition after audition, I attended classes in my free time, and spent a lot of money on agents. It sounds crazy, but when you have a dream, you won’t let anything get in the way. It was hard seeing my friends get jobs, and some of them actually went on to become quite successful. The most difficult part was pretending to be happy for them! Everything changed when I got a new acting coach. We started talking about my life, especially my childhood, and he suggested I start writing it down. I’d spent so much time reading scripts that it just flowed out of me. When I gave it to him to read, he couldn’t believe it! He handed it to a producer he knew, and he thought I had a lot of potential. I really believed that I was going to become a star and maybe I am. Just not, perhaps, in front of the camera.
Speaker 3: If you’re sensitive, this is not the job for you. Actors can be extremely delicate, and they don’t take criticism well. I have a reputation for being quite tough. If they’ve put in a bad performance, I’ll let them know. I remember telling a big A-lister that he’d put in a one-star performance, and he looked like he was about to cry. Movie stars are surrounded by guys telling them that they’re the greatest people on the planet, so I think it’s good to bring them down to earth every now and then. Sometimes, they need to be told what to do, for their own good, you know what I mean? Having said all this, I’m also very protective, and a lot of people I represent have become like family. It’s become acceptable for people to write negative things about celebrities, but I think there should be limits.

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