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Using Film inthe EFL

Classroom

Doina Morari,Access Program

Assistant

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Classroom

How can flm help yo

teach English?• Learning rom flms is motivating andenjoyable

• Film provides authentic and varied language

• Film gives a visual context• ariety and !exibility

• Exposes the students to spo"en language

• #seul in teaching vocabulary

• $t contextuali%es language through the !owo images& ma"ing it more accessible

• Film also o'ers an enlargement o our"nowledge o the world and the cultures thatit contains(

• http)**www(britishcouncil(org*blog*how+can+flm+help+you+teach+or+learn+en lish

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How to #se Films in ,eaching?

• https)**www(youtube(com*watch?v-.Exwa/aH0d1

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  How to #se Films in ,eaching?

2( Find something you li"e

3( 4hoose something you can understand56+768 o 9without subtitles or other help:

;( <on=t use subtitles in your own language

>( atch several times

@( 0tart with English subtitles& then watchagain without subtitles(

A( Bou don=t have to spend a lot o time+ ten

minutes a day is better than nothing(

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Activities

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 Jeopardy

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Story prompts1a"e up cards with words rom a movie that your

students had to watch( <uring the lesson& invite astudent to come in ront o the classroom( His tas" is tocome up with a story using the words rom the cards heextracts one by one( Cnother variant o this activity is toma"e up a story together with all the students( Dne byone& the students extract a card& and have to ma"e up a

sentence with the word each has got( ,hey also have tobe attentive to the previous sentences since they aresupposed to create a coherent story(

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Voice the CharactersVision n!So"nd # $Silent

Vie%ing&

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$nvite the students to watch an episode rom a movewithout sound( ,heir tas" is to voice the characters

and to suggest what they are saying in that particularepisode(

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Characters

Margo

Minion

Agne

s

Edith

'r"

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(he Clothespin 'ame ,his game is very good or chec"ing how attentive the students werewhile watching the movie( $nvite a student in ront o the classroom(

/ut some clothespins on him( ,he class has to as" their colleagueflm+related uestions( $ he answers one correctly& he has the right to

ta"e a clothespin o'( $ not& he will give answers to more uestionsuntil he will give enough correct answers to get rid o all the pins(

 ,he tas" o the whole class is to "eep the person who is in ront othe classroom there as long as possible(

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)ole Play

• reat scenes• Episodes that were not included

in the fnal script 9the studentscome up with those scenes:

• Favorite scenes• 4ome up with other con!ict

solutions

• $magine that the characters livedin a di'erent epoch( How wouldthey react to the situations theyfnd themselves then?

• 4ome up with another ending

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Character *ntervie%

• 0tudents role play a pressconerence in which reporters

interview characters rom a flm

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Dear Film Friend

• ,he students write a letterto a character in a flm(

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Famo"s Film Line• 0tudents match amous lines o flm dialogue with

the names o the actors who said them(

http://www.filmsite.org/topquotes.html

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