Hi all!
Today's activity is a speaking one and I remember being a part of it when I was in U.S. - Spring International Language Center. My experience was definitely amazing, so I wanted to share it with you.
The activity is appropriate for any levels if you can adopt it based on the needs and abilities of your students. My version will work better if you work with at least intermediate level students who are at least secondary school students. Also, your class size should be 20 at most. You can also divide the class into 2 groups if you prefer that.
Here are the steps:
- Prepare the class setting. You will need a wide screen TV or a projector. Also you need to arrange the seats. Considering that you have 10 students in your class. Place 5 chairs facing the screen and the others facing the opposite.
- Tell your students to have a seat. When they sit down, 2 students will be facing each other. (One is looking at the screen and the other is not!)
- Turn on the projector and explain the procedure.
- The procedure: The ones facing the screen will watch a movie for two minutes and telling what is happening in the movie. After a minute, the students will switch their seats and the other student will continue talking about the movie.
- After they watch it, they will be summarizing the movie together discussing and filling the gaps in their minds if they have any. Or you can ask a possible ending!
- At the end, you can re-play the movie or show the end, this time all the students are watching.
For the movie, I advise you to use Pixar's short movies. Here is a link!
Please share if you have any advice or concern,
Best,
Ayca
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