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[Morgen]

Can someone send me the subtitles srt or smi for this, or tell me where to get it? I've looked in all the usual places, and in some unusual ones, but no love. I would have thought it'd be readily available.

[War Eagle]

I just did a google search "great pumpkin charlie brown subtitles" and the first 4 are all subtitle downloads. Hope this helps.

[Morgen]

Sure, it's helpful if you want them in Turkish or Portugese. I thought Korean would probably be more helpful.

[richardlang]

What level of students are you working with? I'd suggest you don't use the subtitles. Watch the entire video before showing it to the class. This helps you skip the boring, mundane parts which don't have language in them. Of course, it's okay to show sections of them rocking out on the piano. However, I'd pause the video many times to elicit comprehensible phrases from the students.

Another thing to consider is the language being used in the Charlie Brown video. Are the characters saying things or sentences of a length the students are used to or will understand?

If not, at the end of such utterances, pause the video and recap what happened in language the students can understand. It's good to prepare and think about what you will say before hand instead of winging it. Good luck with your showing.

I'd also suggest you print out a worksheet of the characters' pictures with their names underneath. This way students can identify who exactly is speaking.

I recently showed the movie Up, a Disney film, to my students. Yea, it was a CAM version, but it was very good and its audio was a line-in, not from the audience. The language in Up was very comprehensible and I paused the video every now and then to check students' understanding of what was said, what might happen, and what had just happened.

Here are some examples of questions I asked my students:

Does she know he's behind him?
What did he jump over (a crack)?
What is he wearing on his eyes (goggles, not "googles")?
Did the doctor tell them good news or bad news?
What do you think the doctor told them (the scene was silent and the husband and wife looked very sad)?
Why did the old man hit the construction worker?
What kind of dog is that (bulldog)?
Does this mean what they are doing, what they will do, or what they did (the screen shows the sentence "Things I'm going to do" as the title in their home-made adventure book)?
What did he just say ("Is it a bird," "I need to go to the bathroom," "Are you okay," "Speak," "He doesn't call me," "My name is Doug," "I'm not your master," "I can smell you," "Haha, you were talking to a rock," "Do you need assistance," "Are you an explorer," "That was cool!")?
Is this a new or old house?
Are they making the house better or worse (better -- they are repairing the house)?
What is on the dog's neck (a collar, a video monitor or GPS)?
Does he want Doug, the dog, to follow them or go away (go away)?
How does she feel?
Where are they going (South America)?
What countries are in South America (Brazil, Peru, etc)?
What's that (a waterfall, a mountain)?
What's the situation (a party, a picnic, a wedding)?

[War Eagle]

Ahhh, you might have wanted to mention that in your post then. I have only ever shown videos to my students with English subtitles. It helps them to learn something.

[Morgen]

Thanks for the suggestions richardlang, although I'd never bring a video to class without watching it at least once so I could prepare an introduction and worksheet(s). It's for my elementary after-school class, mostly third and fourth grade, so they would struggle too much with English subtitles. They've been working hard lately and just finished a long unit today, and since we only have one class next week I wanted to give them a break before starting the next one. The class is an hour, which is ample time to introduce the video, watch it with pauses to summarize and then talk about it afterward.

This is all beside the point, though, since the plan hinges on finding subtitles.

[richardlang]

Download Up and give it a shot. It's definitely a fun, active film.

My students had their midterms, too. I showed them this film the week before. Today was the first day back and we did a lesson on crimes (1st grade) and paintings (2nd grade).

[T-J]

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/fixinput-on/moviename-charlie+brown

Hope this helps....

[Morgen]

Thanks, but unless I'm misreading it, there are still no subs in Korean.

To summarize, I am looking for Korean subs because the students are elementary level.

[richardlang]

I'm afraid they won't be learning much English, though, the way you're approaching it. By using the Korean subtitles for an English film, you're essentially becoming a typical Korean English teacher.

[T-J]