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yakey · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Korea

I tried teaching with the movie Notting Hill yesterday in a small class of about five students. I bought a few copies of the dialogue book with Korean translations and also found a copy of the video of Notting Hill without Korean subtitles. I also went ahead and got the students some sprite and microwave popcorn to kind of give it a movie atmosphere.

We'd watch about 15 minutes of the movie, then when we'd hit a point with some good practical dialogue, I'd stop the movie and we'd do the dialoue out loud. Then I'd rewind the movie and we'd watch that little bit of dialogue from the movie one more time.

I think it made for a nice change of pace for a conversation class, and I'm saving the movie and the script books to use with other classes in the future.

Anybody else have any good or bad experiences using movies?

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

I have taught movies to a number of advanced students.

this site may help you for next time.

http://www.eslnotes.com/synopses.html

mithridates · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject:

I find the best way to teach with a movie is to plan ahead what sort of dialogue they're going to see (maybe for a 20-30 minute session) and then make a clas about that. If your class is 60 minutes long then spend the first 30 minutes going over some of the things they're going to see that day (though without giving away the plot), then let them watch the movie for 20 minutes or so, and at the end give them some handouts if you've prepared them, on anything that's going to come up in the next class. You'd have to work a little bit on making the material for the handouts, but once you've done that you can just do the same thing with any other advanced classes you might have, and then it's all easy from there.

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Here is an example of something i did for a few scenes of Good Will hunting.

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

ah I shoulda' mentioned that I teach that to ADULTS!

he, don't want the kiddies readin' all that Embarassed

fandeath · Joined: 01 Nov 2004

I agree with mithridates.

It's best to teach them the stuff before they watch it. They feel better undertsanding some the first time they watch rather understanding almost nothing if they didn't preview it