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the_beaver



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:08 am    Post subject: movie listening ideas Reply with quote

I'm preparing for the last 6 hours of my multimedia English listening class. So far we've done Smallville, several songs, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing audiobook, and for the last two class days (6 hours) I'm going to do Stand by Me.

Going over lesson ideas for Stand by Me I find I've pretty well done every technique, approach, and activity for listening that I know, bar two -- role play (which I hate) and a sentence matching/sorting, pre and post-listening activity (which I'm preparing).

Anybody have any good ideas? Something unique, interesting, effective, fun?
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denverdeath



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe you already tried these?

Anyway, two pretty cool methods are "sound without picture" and "picture without sound". Get the students to create a picture with the first and a dialogue with the second and then play the scene in the regular way.
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the_beaver



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

denverdeath wrote:
Maybe you already tried these?

Anyway, two pretty cool methods are "sound without picture" and "picture without sound". Get the students to create a picture with the first and a dialogue with the second and then play the scene in the regular way.


I tried the second one. I considered the sound without picture and have students design storyboards -- thanks for the memory jog.
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Both of the aforementioned methods are great.

You can also try getting a transcription and having students read it first, identifying important vocab phrases, and drawing their attn to any special grammatical constructions that might relate to past lessons.

I've even had students produce the transcriptions, scene by painstaking scene. Alternative to this, you could produce a partial transcription and ask your students to fill in the blanks, so to speak.

If it's a DVD and you have a remote control, there are many helpful things you can do. There's an EFL outfit called Linguatec, a spinoff of Berlitz, that does interesting things with video, particularly with the loop function.

Watch a scene once or twice, then ask a randomly-selected student: what just happened? The others will be put on notice that they, too, can be put on the spot, and some will even take notes from that point forward.

The thing to avoid at all costs is putting your feet up, getting out the popcorn, and just watching the film, esp. if it's a video cassette with subtitles. Make your students work through the film, and they can really benefit from it. And they'll usually have a good time, too. Linguatec will spend from four to six weeks on a single film.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another possibility, if you haven't done it, is to choose an action scene and make a list of present continuous verbs. Mix the verbs up and have the students watch the scene, then create sentences in the correct sequence.


If the class is pretty good, you can divide them into teams and have them compete to see who can write the most present continuous verbs they see in the action. (No list from the teacher)
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Gopher



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:
present continuous verbs


This is the primary value Linguatec assigns to film, by the way. Students will internalize the past and present continuous tenses after spending X hours on a film...
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Hanson



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your bud Pill H did a thing with "Johnny English" where he prepared a handout (several pages) on which there were questions about what would happen next in the story at specific moments in the movie. He would stop/pause the movie, and students had to guess what would happen next, discuss their reasons for their choices, after which Mr. H would continue the movie to reveal the denouement...

Students apparently had a great time with it and used lots of English. Multiple choice answers are also possible...
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crazylemongirl



Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hanson wrote:
Your bud Pill H did a thing with "Johnny English" where he prepared a handout (several pages) on which there were questions about what would happen next in the story at specific moments in the movie. He would stop/pause the movie, and students had to guess what would happen next, discuss their reasons for their choices, after which Mr. H would continue the movie to reveal the denouement...

Students apparently had a great time with it and used lots of English. Multiple choice answers are also possible...


oh that's a good idea. Also the princess bride is good for that movie because there are lots of mini suspense things through out the movie.
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