Selin Sadikoglu Selin Sadikoglu

Films
Elementary level

Materials

Abc Vocabulary Match Handout
Abc Movie Genre Posters
Abc Speaking Activity 1 Posters
Abc Speaking Activity 2 Chart
Abc Movie Review With Gap Fill Handout

Main Aims

  • To provide speaking activities for students to improve fluency when talking about films

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice using adjectives to describe films

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Teacher puts up posters of film genres on the board. Teacher elicits the other word for films (movies) Teacher puts up model sentences to explain meaning of 'genre': My favourite movie genre is 'comedy.' I like comedy movies. Students talk in pairs for 1-2 minutes about their favourite genre of movies.

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in upcoming tasks through reading

Students are given a short movie review to read with gaps to fill. They will look at the previous movie posters to assist them in filling in the gaps. Students check answers in pairs. Teacher does fb.

Useful Language (8-10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for upcoming productive tasks

Teacher draws a cline to clarify the meanings of the expressions crazy about something, into something and big fan of something. Teacher clarifies form with error correction sentences using examples from text. Teacher drills chorally for pronounciation. Students complete vocabulary match. Students check in pairs. Teacher does fb.

Productive Task 1 (8-10 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Students are paired up. Teacher will first do a demo of the game. Each pair is given 2 sets of movie posters. Each student takes a set. The student to go first will hold up a movie poster without looking at it. This student will try to guess the movie they are holding by asking questions to their partner such as, 'What is the genre?', 'Who is in the movie?', 'What is in the movie?' 'Is it a foreign movie or a Turkish movie?' (These questions are put up on the wb for reference.) After they have guessed their movies, the second student will hold up his or her posters. While students play the game, teacher will mingle and make notes of any language errors.

Feedback and Error Correction 1 (3-5 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

After the game is finished, teacher will put up some error correction sentences on the wb and elicit the correct answers from the students.

Productive Task 2 (8-10 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Students will be given a chart with questions that they will ask their peers. Students will get up and mingle and interview their peers. While students do activity, teacher will mingle and makes notes of any language errors.

Feedback and Error Correction 2 (3-5 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

After the game is finished, teacher will put up some error correction sentences on the wb and elicit the correct answers from the students.

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