TV Show Guide for ANY Episode

This document has been designed to develop listening and critical thinking skills while broadening learners' awareness of values, social, cultural and personal issues in our society, present and past taboos that TV show episodes may explore. The four types of worksheets focus mainly on: conflict situations, cultural, social, personal issues, values, comparing characters, taboos, summarizing, personal response to the text.

These worksheets have a before watching, while watching and after watching section. This resource is not a checking understanding-type document ; it requires students to go deeper and analyze, connect and respond to the text.

✿If you teach ESL learners, I would recommend using this resource mostly in your enriched/advanced groups. However, it may also be useful in core/regular ESL classes, especially, if you have mixed-ability learners.

Also available in a bundle: Viewing Comprehension Activities Value Pack

UPDATE 2020: A copy of this resource has been optimized for paperless use. The document has been imported into Google Slides™, and text boxes have been added, so you can share it with your students on Google Classroom™ or similar online learning management systems that support Google files™.

⭐You will find four types of worksheets in this document:

The zip file contains:

• A PDF document for classroom use.
• A link to the Google Slide™ version (paperless resource).

◼️Version A: Students are required to identify: conflict situations, cultural, social, personal issues, important characters in an episode.

◼️Version B: Students are required to: identify the conflict, values conveyed, one of the character’s concerns and difficulties and the way she/he copes with these challenges, a scene or situation they find shocking; learners are also required to provide the summary of the episode and record some take-home notes (lessons learned).

◼️Version C: Students are required to: identify the conflict, compare two characters, explain the way they relate to one of the characters, provide the summary of the episode, describe their favorite scene, predict what happens next.

◼️Version D: This worksheet should be used to explore taboos in an episode. Students are required to identify social, cultural, institutional and personal taboos in an episode. After watching, learners need to work in pairs or small teams and give other examples of taboos.

❀These worksheets can be used for a 20-30 minute-long episode (or a longer one if you wish so), however you will have to allot time for completing answers after viewing the episode. If you are short on time, let students finish the After Watching section at home and turn their papers in the next day.

⭐FILE DETAILS: Paper size: 8.5" x 11" (Standard US Letter). Documents are not editable unless otherwise stated. Resources are available either in a PDF or PPT file.

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