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1. Using Film in the Classroom
11. Vision Off Task 1
What can you hear?
How many people are there?
What is happening?
Where is the scene set?
12. Vision Off Task 2
The name of the short film is ‘Teeth’ and features two men with false teeth.
Does this change how you imagined the scene to be?
You are the screenwriter for this short film. Write a paragraph with your partner describing the scene. Describe:
where the scene takes place
the men in the scene (clothes, appearance, feelings)
what happens in the scene
Use the notes you made on the sounds to help you.
13. Vision Off Task 1
describe the scene (soundtrack or sounds only)
predicting (it might be… / it must be…)
Task 2
Descriptions: vocabulary for appearance, character and emotions
Use who, what, where, when, how questions
Tense practice
Can use scene with dialogue e.g. Bend it Like Beckham
14. Vision Off
15. Pause & Predict
16. Pause & Predict Task
What happens next?
Exponent
writing
speaking
17. Sound Off Tasks
make up a dialogue
complete a dialogue
provide a voice-over
describe the music
Exponent
integrated skills: prediction, writing, speaking (role play)
18. Other techniques Dictogloss
Play scene with sound for gist
Repeat the scene. Ask Ss to take notes
Ss share notes with partner
Repeat the scene
Ss fill in the gaps
Role-play
More information: http://www.englishraven.com/SLAC_dictogloss.html
http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/strategies/Dictogloss.pdf
Freeze frame
Pause a scene and ask Ss to describe the scene e.g. the character’s appearance, clothes, feelings, colours.
19. Who does what?
20. Who does what? Task
Match the actions to the character
Exponent
describing & sequencing actions
21. Matching & Sequencing events Matching
Match collocations
Watch scene and find the odd-one-out
Sequencing events
Watch scene
Put actions in order
Watch and check
22. Matching & Sequencing events
23. Other techniques Interview with a celebrity
Casting
Class Oscars
best actor / best actress / who was the funniest?
Climax (Cause & Effect)
Missing scene
Wordhunt
find all the words ending in –ed / -s / -ing
all adjectives & adverbs
One-sided phone conversation
similar to dialogue completion in Sound Off
24. For more ideas Watch Jamie Keddie’s seminar on the TeachingEnglish website:
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/seminars/using-video-elt-jamie-keddie