Books vs Movies: Which Is Better?
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Books vs Movies: Which Is Better?

Books vs Movies: Which Is Better? Spark lively debate and critical thinking with this engaging ESL worksheet for B1–B2 teens and adults. Students practise speaking, reading, and writing skills through discussion questions, phrase-sorting tasks, structured debates, and opinion-based writing. Learners build confidence using agreeing, disagreeing, and partial agreement phrases, develop argumentation skills, and explore a high-interest topic. Ideal for conversation classes, exam preparation, and communicative lessons, this ready-to-use worksheet includes answer keys for easy classroom use.

Skills

  • Can explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
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1

Discuss these questions with your group.

1
What types of books do you enjoy reading the most?
2
How often do you watch movies compared to reading books?
3
How do you think stories in books differ from those in movies?
4
Have you ever read a book and then watched its movie adaptation? What did you think?
5
Do you think books can teach us more than movies? Why or why not?
2

Sort the phrases into the right groups.

3

Are books better than movies? Read the lists and think about these points. Add three more arguments to each list. Compare your ideas with the group.

4

Hold a debate.

5

Choose the topic that you like and share your thoughts on it. Use the ideas from the debate.