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jbpatlanta · Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Location: Daejeon

I'd like to start using TV shows in my classes esp the afterschool classes. Does anyone have any experience creating lesson plans from TV shows?
Does anyone know good websites that will help me create lesson plans and activites from TV shows?

DrOctagon · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Location: Chicago

I used a clip from Seinfeld to teach formal and informal answering machine recordings.

"Believe it or not, George isn't at home,
Please leave a message at the beep..."

I don't show complete episodes though. They can't understand the fast speaking. I've shown clips of Shin Chan though to kill time and just to get them to listen to more English.

I guess my point is that you can definitely use clips from shows to help garner interest in a concept or topic. You just have to take the time out to look for what's right for that particular lesson.

Typhoon · Joined: 29 May 2007 Location: Daejeon

For the young ones I love Backyardigans. Lots of repeating, songs, dancing and good story lines. Fun for the kids and fun for me too. Very Happy

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

That's a tough question! I really don't know of any or if there are any good episodes for language learners other than using "parts" of some shows. It takes a lot to make a lesson from an episode and there is also the problem of no subtitles and lots of colloquial language...

We have on EFL Classroom 2.0 the EXtra English Series. Many teachers have used this at summer camp or with after school classes. Workbooks/transcripts and Teacher's book. A very successful TV show for learning English in Europe several years ago. About teenagers living together...the language is really lower level and the stories interesting.
http://eflclassroom.ning.com/Wpage/page/show?id=826870%3APage%3A70220

Also, Family Album USA in our A/v player. Find the book in resources. A classic but dated. You can also find these on youtube but no book..

Cheers,

DD

Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

Shows with no dialogue are good. You can ask the students questions about what is happening, and how the characters are feeling. Get the students to make sentences.

I've used Mr. Bean, Tom & Jerry and Roadrunner. If anyone could recommend some good comedy with no dialogue (suitable for middle/high-school kids) I'd appreciate it as I need to find something to replace the Mr. Bean episodes which we're coming to the end of.

greedy_bones · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: not quite sure anymore

For advanced classes, I've used ducktales. It's pretty good for talking about dialects and puns.

Colorado · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject:

The other day a taxi driver showed me a video clip on his dashboard computer of a Korean English Teacher using an episode of Prison Break as a lesson. My middle school kids would love that. It consisted primarily of showing a few frames, translation into Korean, then repeating the phrases in English.
Still I'd like to find a copy of it.

wings · Joined: 09 Nov 2006

One good activity that I have done in the past is to cover up the screen and just let the students hear the video clip. Talk about what they hear, how many people there are, where are they etc. Get students in groups of how many people are in the scene and have them use the dialoge to make a skit, acting out what they think is happening in the scene. After the students have done the skit show them the real scene and talk about the differences or similarities.

Make sure you use a scene with a lot of obvious dialogue and background noises. Clips that take place in a restaurant with service going on and something being spilled or dropped are good, or scenes with people fighting, yelling, or doing something else that is obvious.

DrOctagon · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Location: Chicago

Greedybones, I wanna throw up whenever I see that avatar. Shocked

DrOctagon · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Location: Chicago

karri · Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Location: south korea

The movie the Incredibles works great along with the superhero project off www.mes-english.com. but it might be a bit lame for hs kids.

DrOctagon · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Location: Chicago

I just watched a few clips of Mr. Bean, and I can't really think how much the students are going to learn English from it. While hilarious and fun, the learning will be very minimal. But maybe I'll use it anyways since tomorrow will be a free day of sorts.

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

A new member on our community offers some cool movie/tv lessons.

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/

Might be worth checking out. Also, on EFL Classroom 2.0, we have all the main Mr. Bean videos for download/play in our A/V player....

Handy.

To the person who couldn't figure out how Mr. Bean would help in the classroom -- think -- Speaking! Mr. Bean is the prompt and students describe the action..... like wings suggested

DD
http://eflclassroom.ning.com