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CREATIVE WAYS TO USE POPULAR MOVIES IN FUN ESL LESSONS
Omonova Barno Izzatullo qizi
Second course student, Termez State University
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Abstract:
It’s tempting to think that putting on a movie is simply a great excuse
for the teacher to sit at the back of the room, dim the lights and fall asleep clutching the
remote. But it’s not true, I tell you!
Creating a lesson around a popular movie is a sure-fire way to have fun, engage
your English learners and gain some much coveted popularity!
Keywords:
Movies, historical event, Before the movie clip, short film.
How Does Watching a Movie Help ESL Students?
There are countless ways in which movies can support your lesson.
For example, they can be used to:
Reinforce a grammar point
Practice vocabulary
Discuss and debate
Role play
Movies are a brilliant way for students to hear up-to-date authentic speech and be
exposed to various accents. And because there are countless movies based on an infinite
amount of things, you can use them to introduce or spark discussions about a certain
topic, be it a historical event, a time period or the culture of a foreign country.
And of course, by bringing popular moviesinto your lessons, you show students
how they can learn from and practice English when watching movies in their own time.
Kieran Donaghy, the genius behind the site Film English, takes advantage of all
of these features in his ready-to-use free ESL lesson plans that go with an
accompanying creative short film.
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To help your ESL students improve their English using any movie or short film,
try out the following activities!
10 Creative Ways to Use Popular Movies in Fun ESL Lessons
5 Great ESL Movie Comprehension Activities
Movies can be implemented into any lesson, with the purpose of getting
students to comprehend and gain meaning from free-flowing speech. Here are five great
activities to check comprehension.
How Observant Are You?
This activity is good for getting students to talk in the past tense about
observation-based facts.
Before the movie clip, don’t tell the students what they are looking for, but tell
them to watch with a keen detective’s eye. Afterwards ask them a question about a
specific item in a room, or a character’s words or actions. You can make this a group
exercise, getting teams to write their answers together. Repeat as many times as you
want!
Vocabulary Meaning Match
Use a movie to reinforce or teach vocabulary with this simple activity.
Give students a worksheet with a list of vocabulary words in one column, and
scrambled definitions in the other. As students watch the movie clip, they have to match
the vocabulary to the adjacent list of meanings.
Order the Events
This is a reading-based activity, good for building up students’ recall power.
After watching the clip, give students a set of event cards (no more than ten), in
pairs or individually. Each card should contain one or two sentences of events from the
movie clip. These can be as significant or insignificant as you want, depending on the
length of the clip and what the focus of the lesson is. Students have to rearrange the
events into the correct order.
ivities is to get your students using English in an informal and fun way, with less
structure than the comprehension exercises above. Choose a popular movie for
maximum excitement and participation from students!
This activity will get students up, out of their shells and speaking English in a fun,
relaxed way.
Watch a movie clip that’s anywhere between five and twenty minutes long,
depending on the length of the lesson and the level of your students. Afterwards, tell the
students that they will be performing the clip to their peers. Put them in groups,
according to how many characters there are in the movie clip. The aim is to have the
right number of characters for the number of students in a group, but when this is not
possible, two students can play the part of one character, splitting the lines between
them. Alternatively there could also be a narrator.
There are several different ways to do this activity. You can give students only a
short amount of time to practice, and not allow them to write anything down. You could
even give them no time at all, and see if they can create an improvised version, although
this should be reserved for higher or more confident students.
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Another version is to allow students to prepare a script of sorts before they begin
practicing, or even to print an extract of the script for them to use. After an adequate
amount of rehearsal time, students perform for each other.
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