Backstage – at the festival: guidelines for teachers © Crown copyright 2011, Department for...

Backstage – at the festival:

guidelines for teachers

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LinkedUp project: Backstage

© Crown copyright 2011, Department for Education. This resource has been created through the LinkedUp Award Scheme.

Backstage: what is it about?

Backstage is based on international film and music festivals. The students research the festival world and then use the target language creatively for a real purpose: they develop the language to promote, organise and star in their own festival, followed by a celebrity Awards ceremony, plus perform live at a local event.


Backstage: application

Suffolk’s first LinkedUp project

“Thanks to LinkedUp, students are able to benefit from an

exciting and motivating opportunity to speak, perform, be creative,

share and collaborate.”


Objectives for the learners:

•spontaneously create questions and answers with minimal written prompts•adapt, use and extend the language learned in a new and real situation•improved pronunciation.


Objectives for the teachers:• to develop innovative ways of teaching

speaking• to collaborate across the key stages to

promote a more confident progression in speaking

• to gain a greater awareness of good practice in each key phase.


Transition phasesPrimary to middle – Years 4-5Middle to high – Years 8-9 = final Year of KS3 at high school

PRE-LINKEDUP •3x KS3 liaison meetings a year. •Rural location and geographical distance between schools means liaison is difficult•The high school had not previously been involved in primary to middle school transition


What did we do?

• Analysed student questionnaires to get their perspective• Adapted schemes of work to introduce new units with a

speaking focus for year groups 5 to 9• Linked up with a local TV and film company who mentored

a Year 9 focus group and produced footage of the project.• Made the primary to middle school transition day a focus

day for the speaking project• Introduced a competition for the best speaking project – to

be presented at an Awards ceremony• Year 9 volunteers became language leaders who would visit

the middle school for “Group Talk” workshops• Years 5 and 6 performed at Latitude music and arts festival.


The ideas and activities

• Years 5 & 6 created a new drama based on an adaptation of “La Chenille qui fait les trous”.

• Year 7 worked on advertising campaigns based on imaginary products.

• Year 8 produced film trailers – they had to create storyboards and pitch their ideas to an audience. Year 9 language and media students filmed them.

• Year 8 also worked on celebrity fashion and created fashion shows – Year 9 language leaders assisted them with their project.

• Year 9 worked on media, film and festivals with a focus on being backstage at the festival: interviews with performers and

celebrities, reviews, advertising and promotion.


Embedding questions

Embed questions and “how to ask questions” into SOWGet into a routine - focus starter activities for first lesson in the week around questions

Use plenty of visuals (we used film and festival picture stimulus but ideas suitable for any topic)

•Use photos – centre questions around photo as in new GCSE•Find a photo to display – give a load of answers – get students to guess the questions•Put some photos / pictures on display – get students to think of suitable questions for the pictures•Display pictures and questions – get students to match the questions to the picture


Question icebreaker

Trouvez quelqu’un qui…..…aime les films d’horreur…n’aime pas aller au cinéma…déteste les films de science fiction…adore les comédies…connais un / une célèbre…a vu Toy Story 3…est allé(e) au cinéma pendant les vacances…trouve les documentaires ennuyeux…va rarement au cinéma…es accro des films


Use dramaGreet student at the door and give them a card with an adjective on it, e.g. “triste”. Tell them not to show their card to anyone. Put a question on the board. They have to act – if they have the card “triste” they have to ask the question in a sad way – the rest of the class have to guess what the adjective is.

With this activity you double your vocab – practise adjectives and questionsCombine it with the following activity……


Guess the film star

• Greet student at the door and give them a card with the name of a film star on it. Tell them not to show their card to anyone. The card also lists the films the actor / actress has starred in and their nationality and age. The rest of the class have to ask questions in order to identify the film star.

With this activity students can research and prepare the cards.


Film festival photos

Cannes and Berlinalee.g. photo of Madonna, Berlinale photo archive 1993. Add text boxes

Wann?

Wer? Was sagt sie? Wo?

Was macht sie?

Warum?

Was hat er gewonnen?

Was trägt sie?


L’affiche de Cannes 2011http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.htmlTake a look at the poster for this year’s Cannes festival (2010)Task: Design a poster for Cannes 2011

Das Plakat der Berlinale 2011www.berlinale.de

Task: Entwerf das Plakat der Berlinale 2011!Viel Spaß!


10 films pour frémir !

Prêt à frémir ?IgorCoralineWallice et GromitNumero 9La famille Addam

Le voyage de ChihiroLes noces funèbresCasperHarry PotterL’étrange Noël de Mr Jack

http://www.momes.net/Cinema/index.html

?Image: www.openclipart.org


Group Talk workshops


Use of idiom

• Bonne idée!• Bof…ça m’est égal• Tu plaisantes!• Ce n’est pas vrai!• Je n’ai pas envie!• Je n’en crois pas mes yeux!• Ça ne me dit rien!• Tu rigoles!


Use of emphatic pronouns

• Moi, je pense que…• Elle, elle trouve que…• Lui, il dit que… mais moi, je suis

contre.• Eux, ils adorent….• Et vous, à votre avis…?• Et toi, qu’est-ce que tu penses de…?• Nous, nous sommes d’accord…


?

On ira au festival!

Images: www.openclipart.org, www.wpclipart.com


Film ab!• Roter Teppich bis zum Horizont!• Schwienwerferglanz!• Faszinierende Schauspieler!• Geniale Regissuere!• Gute Plots!• Intelligente Produzenten!

www.berlinale.dewww.kino.dehttp://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/enindex.htm

Images: www.wpclipart.com, www.openclipart.org


Backstage PLTSTeam work - collaborate with others to work towards common goals, reach agreements, managing discussions to achieveresults, adapt behaviour to suit different roles and situationsincluding leadership roles, take responsibility, showing confidence in themselves and their contribution, provide constructive support and feedback to others

Self managers – seek out challenges, work towards goals, show initiative, commitment and perseverance, organise time and resources, prioritising actions, anticipate, take and manage risks, deal with competing pressures, respond positively to change

Creative thinkers – generate ideas, extend thinking, follow ideas through, ask questions, assume questions, explore possibilities, adapt and react as necessary, consider newsolutions, try out alternatives


LinkedUp Backstage

Wo?

Wann?

Was?

Warum?

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