Describing Movie and TV Show Characters
ESL Lesson PlansDescribing Movie and TV Show Characters

Describing Movie and TV Show Characters

This 60-minute lesson plan for adults and teens (A2/B1 level) helps learners build vocabulary, speaking, and reading skills by describing movie and TV show characters. Students analyze texts, answer comprehension questions, and complete matching activities and fill-in-the-blank exercises. The lesson includes interactive speaking practice where learners describe characters. Perfect for individual study.

Skills

  • Can describe everyday aspects of their environment, e.g. people, places, a job or study experience.
  • Can understand texts describing people, places, everyday life and culture, provided they use simple language.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Warm up. Match these words to make phrases you can use to describe a character.

2

Read the text and answer the questions below.

3

Glossary

4

Answer the questions.

5

Fill in the gaps with the correct body parts.

6

Pick two TV or movie characters you want to describe. Use the questions below and the vocabulary you learned (e.g., hair, eyes, height) to describe them.