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[Binch Lover]

I want to do some lessons on movies for my 4th-6th grade club classes. Can anyone recommend some good movies or lesson plans based around popular kids' movies?

[Otherside]

By the time they hit the sixth grade, they aren't interested in "kids" movies anymore. Gratuitous sex and violence are what they really want, but in a school setting sex is a bit of a no-no, especially from a foriegner.

Lesson plan:
Insert random Steven Segal (or other equally @#$% actor) movie in dvd player.
Press play.
Leave the class, and come back 90 minutes later.

Next time, ask them what they liked about the movie..and if they recall any phrases.

PS. Stay away from Jean-Claude van Damne...last year half my kids were speaking English with this french, korean creole thing...

[SuperHero]

[crusher_of_heads]

[Stormy]

I just googled "Shrek lesson plans" & this was the first up. An ESL lesson plan for Hebrew-speakers. Replace the Hebrew transalations with Korean & you're done.

http://www.etni.org.il/teachers/adele/shrek/shrek3.htm

[anyangoldboy]

Mr.Bean...It's basically non-verbal

[ms.catbc]

what about Ratatouille?

You could tie in food and cooking vocab and even make meals in your class.

Even just a simple salad while discussing the names of food and the steps needed to make the salad.

You could then role play ordering in a restaurant afterwards.

with the older kids you could then teach about paris or something maybe.

[ajuma]

Mr. Bean would be great! You can ask question like "What WAS he doing?" to reinforce past tense. "What was the funniest part?" or "Was THAT funnier than THIS?" to go over superlatives and comparatives....

[Dances With Wolves]

I will give this a try.

First find certain elements of film in which you want to explore with the class. Then define the elements on a worksheet or white board. Find a movie that uses the elements explored in class, then obviously show the movie. For short classes, this lesson may take 2 or 3 periods, however instead of showing the whole film you can try certain scenes from several movies to show how the elements work.

Class discussion topics could be: elements of the narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, acting, editing, sound, and meaning. For an English class a paper is the normal assignment. The students would create an argument then support it using scenes or aspects from the film or films.

I have some great books on this topic may I suggest "Looking at Movies" by Richard Barsam. If you buy this book it comes with a DVD of the scenes explored in the book and a smaller insert book that details writing about movies. Please feel free to pm me regarding movie ideas.

The Wizard of Oz is a great movie to use.

[ricky_lamour]

[Ken Wayne]

Wizard of Oz!

[Easter Clark]

[Binch Lover]

Yeah, I reckon that'll be a bit over their heads!! That would be too difficult even for my teacher's class (about intermediate level)! You can tell Dances With Wolves hasn't set foot in a public school setting.

Thanks for the suggestions anyway. I only have 3x40 mins classes and the level is low so I have to keep it simple. I really like the Shrek activity sheet even though it'll be too hard for 4th and 5th graders. I reckon what I'll do is just adapt it and incorporate some of the language we've covered in the curriculum. I think Shrek is a good choice too cos they'll know the storyline already.

Easter Clark, I used those materials for my teacher's class before and they worked very well. If only my students were up to it!

[Dances With Wolves]

You can tell Dances With Wolves hasn't set foot in a public school setting.

Rather obtuse.

[daz1979]

Mr Bean and Harry Potter worked best in my class. I just showed short clips and made a word fill activity for each clip using past tense. This was for my elementary students and they did it quite easily.

For high school I will have to come up with some better material though. I think I will try to do some what happens next role plays and online advertisement clips as discussion classes.