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[incognito84]

I had a week off with Swine Flu and now I'm back.

Anyway, this lesson is pretty straight forward and should be fun. I'm thinking of integrating movie trailers into the lesson plan but I want to try it first without them and see how I do for time. With the worksheets it is possible that it will run pretty long (I have to do a textbook review as well), so feel free to add your own movie trailers (use apple.com/trailers to download them) to make illustrations about plot/story, background/setting etc.

The lesson should work perfectly for Middle or High School with alterations for the appropriate levels.

There are High (Intermediate) and Low-Medium (Low-High Beginner) PPTs attached.

Lesson format:

Go through the powerpoint. Print one "Movie Language" handout for every two students and go over it with them along with the powerpoint when prompted to do so (the section about genre, plot, actors etc). (~20 minutes)

At the end of the lesson do the "Movie Cloze" and "Movie Riddles" hand outs in that order. Print them double sided.

For the "Movie Cloze" hand out, try to ellict the answers with High level students and simply tell the answers to the Low level students (they will fill them in).

The "Movie Riddles" section should be done in groups of two or three with low level students and singularly with high level students.(~20-25 minutes)

Feedback, please! 

[bleakronnie]

This looks great... I've been teaching about movies for a few lessons and this game looks like a great way to solidify.
I've made some minor adjustments. I'll let you know how it goes, thanks!!

[Scott]

I tried a version of this with my extra class.  They complained and tried to convince me that they couldn't think of three movies.  I got kinda frustrated and started listing off movies that I knew they knew.  "What about Harry Potter?  Ever heard of it? What about Shrek?  Twilight?" 

Once they accepted it was lesson time it went well. 

[incognito84]

I tried a version of this with my extra class.  They complained and tried to convince me that they couldn't think of three movies. 

I had the same problem. I don't see what the problem is about listing movies! I think they are just scared of using the Korean name for movies and don't know the English name for most of the movies they watch.

[bza]

This lesson worked great with my students. I threw in a few extra examples for genre, actor, and setting, and showed them extra pictures from movies.

I gave more examples as well, before having them guess what type of movie it is. For example, when describing genres, I showed a picture of Benjamin Button and said this is an example of a drama.

I think that helped set up the concept for them a little better. I also reduced the amount of questions slightly on the movie vocab sheet, to make sure there was more time for students to present the movie riddles to the class.

The lesson was such a hit, I actually choose it for my open class, which was a hit there as well. So thanks for posting this lesson, its a really great idea that is effective in having students speak and is fun!

[incognito84]

Glad I could be of assistance