Top Ten Movie Guides

Thirty-Two Movie Guides released.
Would you like to know what our Movie Guide Users' favourites are?
In this graph you can see our top ten Movie Guides.



1. Shrek
2. The Terminal
3. Ice Age
4. Pirates of the Caribbean
5. Gladiator
6. Lord of the Rings
7. The Incredibles
8. Matrix
9. Mask of Zorro
10.Bruce Almighty

¿Are you using Movie Guides? ¿What is your favourite one?
For those of you new to Challenge Education Movie Guides, we offer creative lesson plans based on sequences of movies. Teachers love our Movie Guides because they are a flexible tool to supplement any EFL/ESL course, they are very simple to use and they help students develop their communicative skills.
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Movie Guide 01 based on the film "Shrek"

Challenge Education Movie Guide 01 is based on the film "Shrek" It was the first e-guide released in 2005 and it is one of our bestsellers.

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Let Shrek, Princess Fiona and Donkey help your students discover a wide range of new words and expressions. Both kids and adults can profit from these 16 Lesson Plans from the Kingdom of Far, Far Away.

1 lesson plan for Beginner
2 lesson plans for Elementary
6 lesson plans for Pre Intermediate
3 lesson plans for Intermediate
4 lesson plans for Upper Intermediate

In this opportunity we want to share with you one of the lesson plans for Upper Intermediate/B2 level included in the e-guide.
This lesson plan is based on scene 11 (0:49:13 to 0:55:24) of the film and it deals with human values, making students think of stereotypes and how they may affect first impressions. Why does Shrek say to the Princess “You are not exactly what I expected”?
Students are encouraged to debate on the topic and share personal experiences.

Read this doc on Scribd: Lesson Plan Scene 11 from Shrek 1 Movie Guide

If you use this Lesson Plan with your students we will be delighted to get your feedback. Would you like to see the complete index of the e-guide with all the lesson plans available? Click here

Authentic Material in the classroom

Many are the resources teachers of English can use in their lessons but experience and research let us claim that using films in the EFL/ESL classroom proves to be one of the best choices. The value of films as a language teaching resource is clear when we find our students highly motivated and interested while working with this precious authentic material that provides them with broad cultural contexts of the target language, and gives them opportunities to develop their cultural awareness and expand their experience with listening and speaking. The merits of film viewing are numerous. Films bring the English language world to the learner, who feels highly motivated to be able to understand and enjoy something real. Learners are in contact with natural language that includes up-to-date linguistic resource of accents, vocabulary, grammar and all kinds of discourse used by native speakers of the target language. All in all, films stand out as a powerful tool that will make your everyday lessons motivating and contextualized.
Patricia Dudulec
Creative collaborator at Challenge Education

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Starting a new way of communicating

This is our new blog. A new way of communicating among Challenge Education Movie Guide users around the world. Thirty two Movie Guides have been released in the past two years providing language teachers with a wide range of lesson plans to motivate students.

Challenge Education designs Movie Guides with lesson plans based on sequences of popular movies aimed at optimising learning results and supplement any EFL course. Each Movie Guide has at least 15 lesson plans created to be used independently of the whole film. Each lesson plan is designed for one of the following levels: Beginner /A1 , Elementary / A2, Pre Intermediate / B1, Intermediate / B1+, Upper Intermediate B2. All lesson plans include step-by step Teachers' Notes, Answer Key and Students' Handout ready to use.

01. Challenge Education Movie Guide 01 based on the film: Shrek 1 /
16 Lesson Plans (107pages).

02. Challenge Education Movie Guide 02 based on the film: Mask of Zorro
16 Lesson Plans (105pages).

03. Challenge Education Movie Guide 03 based on the film: Matrix 1
21 Lesson Plans (128 pages).

04. Challenge Education Movie Guide 04 based on the film: Pirates of the Caribbean 1
15 Lesson Plans (97 pages).

05. Challenge Education Movie Guide 05 based on the film: Bruce Almighty
15 Lesson plans (102 pages).

06. Challenge Education Movie Guide 06 based on the film: Gladiator
15 Lesson Plans (107 pages).

07. Challenge Education Movie Guide 07 based on the film: The Terminal
18 Lesson Plans. (107pages).

08. Challenge Education Movie Guide 08 based on the film: HP 1
27 Lesson Plans (179 pages).

09. Challenge Education Movie Guide 09 based on the film: The Ring
16 Lesson Plans (107 pages).

10. Challenge Education Movie Guide 10 based on the film: Lord of the Rings 1
18 Lesson plans (128 pages).

11. Challenge Education Movie Guide 11 based on the film: The Grinch
15 Lesson Plans (118 pages).

12. Challenge Education Movie Guide 12 based on the film: Ice Age
16 Lesson Plans (113 pages).

13. Challenge Education Movie Guide 13 based on the film: Minority Report
16 Lesson Plans (127 pages).

14. Challenge Education Movie Guide 14 based on the film: The Incredibles
19 Lesson Plans (181 pages).

15. Challenge Education Movie Guide 15 based on the film: The Haunted Mansion
17 Lesson Plans (139 pages).

16. Challenge Education Movie Guide 16 based on the film: The Day After Tomorrow
16 Lesson Plans (144 pages).

17. Challenge Education Movie Guide 17 based on the film: Collateral
15 Lesson Plans (139 pages).

18. Challenge Education Movie Guide 18 based on the film: Space Jam
15 Lesson Plans (129 pages).

19. Challenge Education Movie Guide 19 based on the film: Intolerable Cruelty
15 Lesson Plans (126 pages).

20. Challenge Education Movie Guide 20 based on the film: Madagascar
16 Lesson Plans (146 pages)

21. Challenge Education Movie Guide 21 based on the film: The Last Samurai
15 Lesson Plans (121 pages).

22. Challenge Education Movie Guide 22 based on the film: Spanglish
16 Lesson Plans (129 pages).

23. Challenge Education Movie Guide 23 based on the film: Hitch
16 Lesson Plans (138 pages).

24. Challenge Education Movie Guide 24 based on the film: Polar Express
17 Lesson Plans (142 pages).

25. Challenge Education Movie Guide 25 based on the film: High School Musical
15 Lesson Plans (141 pages).

26. Challenge Education Movie Guide 26 based on the film: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
18 Lesson Plans (156 pages).

27. Challenge Education Movie Guide 27 based on the film: The Chronicles of Narnia
16 Lesson Plans (125 pages).

28. Challenge Education Movie Guide 28 based on the film: Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of the were-rabbit
15 Lesson Plans (134 pages).

29. Challenge Education Movie Guide 29 based on the film: The Island
15 Lesson Plans - 120 pages.

30. Challenge Education Movie Guide 30 based on the film: Nanny McPhee
15 Lesson Plans - 128 pages

31. Challenge Education Movie Guide 31 based on the film: Night at the Museum
15 Lesson Plans - 124 pages.

32. Challenge Education Movie Guide 32 based on the film: Cars
15 Lesson Plans.


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