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Otherguy · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 10 Location: San Diego

Hi,
I want to do some dubbing exercises with my students. They range from 8th to 9th grades. They have done this before. I want to bring some new material in for them though as I noticed quite a few eyes roll when I mentioned movies like Toy Story, Shrek etc. Seems they have done these before.
Anyone know of some movies that tend to have scenes where 3-5 characters speak for 5+ minutes?. No cussing and should be O.K. for kids.
There are so many action movies nowdays which of course don't lend themselves to this kind of thing.

seamallowance · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:19 am Post subject:

The Simpsons? Leave It To Beaver? The "Dead parrot" sketch?

Teatime of Soul · Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 905

Try The Breakfast Club, John Hughs directed this 1985 hit IIRC

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing

Star Wars.

Too complicated?

Try any Disney film.

Or.. the best one:

Big Bird Goes to China

nickpellatt · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1522

I wouldnt use anything animated, but maybe thats me.

I would think just about any movie would be OK? Of course, it depends on what you are actually doing, but I have used a clip of under 2 mins from 'American Beauty'. Scene was just after the cheerleader part when Kevin Spacey first speaks to Mena Suvari. Annette Benning and Thora Birch are also in the scene. That 2 min clip made a 45 minute lesson for a small group of adult learners at lower int.

Activties included showing them the clip muted. Groups discuss what they think could be happening, what the relationships between actors are. Discuss. Feedback, as a class agree some points to note on board.

Watch again and ask students to note examples of body language and expression. Discuss as class.

Give students a few key sentences from clip, groups must discuss to decide who says what. Feedback, do they think their ideas from point 1 are still the same?

Give full script, with some missing words ... students listen to clip audio, completing text.

Discuss scene, discuss how right/wrong they were etc.

Easily 45 minutes of lesson, less than 2 minutes of film clip. Most movies would have a suitable 2 minutes of dialogue to use like this IMO.

Otherguy · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 10 Location: San Diego

Thank you so much for the suggestions. That really helps!