Australian film comprehension and discussion worksheet: Strictly Ballroom

This worksheet focuses on genre, plot outline, adjectives to describe the colourful characters and Australian idioms. Strictly Ballroom is high energy music and dance film with contrasting and competitive characters. This worksheet helps learners of English understand what happens in the film, who the main characters are and understanding how they speak. Answers are provided in the written narrative. Discussion questions have no answers as it is meant to be part of an open discussion.

Suitable for ESL/EFL learners.

1992, Directed by Baz Luhrmann

Screenplay by Baz Luhrmann and Andrew Bovell

Music by David Hirchfelder

Featuring Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Gia Carides

You will receive a fillable PDF document.

ACTIVITIES

Activities are categorised under these headings:

• As you watch: Write notes in a viewing diary, True or False activity
• After you watched: identify film genre, Who am I? character activity, adjectives to describe characters, discussion, writing an outline of the plot and a description of the characters

SUGGESTIONS

• Students write short individual descriptions of each character.
• You may like to use it in conjunction with the koalanet/Australian slang website.

MORE RESOURCES

This resource is part of a whole pack of film worksheets at www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Film-resource-6-Australian-films-worksheets-and-flipbook which also includes a Word and Flipbook version.

Strictly ballroom film comprehension and discussion worksheet is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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