Based on the best-seller novel, About A Boy tells the story of the unlikely friendship between carefree bachelor Will and 12 year old Marcus, a sensitive misfit who is concerned about his mother.

The winner of 7 awards, including 'Best Comedy Feature' (US Comedy Arts Festival) and 'Best Actor' (Empire Awards), About a Boy is a charming film that will engage your students with its themes of family, relationships and belonging.

The film also features a beautiful award-winning soundtrack by Badly Drawn Boy.

 

About a Boy: Photocopiable Resource Pack - Intermediate is highly recommended for Intermediate, and is also suitable for Pre-Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate learners. It contains four lessons of up to 3.5 hours each, that accompany four sections of the movie About a Boy.

This ESL Movie Resource Title includes a wide variety of pre-viewing, viewing and post-viewing activities, as well as easy-to-follow lesson plans and a comprehensive answer key.

The photocopiable activities in this Resource Pack include:

 

• Pre-Viewing: vocabulary activities, discussion review activities, vocabulary review activities, DVD review activities

• Viewing: gap-fill activities, discussion activities, script-writing activities, listening and ordering activities, true/false activities, optional viewing activities

• Post-Viewing: Writing Tasks and discussion activities, with topics related to themes within the movie section