Movie Guides Would you like to… MOTIVATE STUDENTS USE AUTHENTIC MATERIAL OFFER VARIETY SURPRISE STUDENTS SUPPLEMENT EFL / ESL COURSE HAVE EVERYTHING.

Movie Guides

Would you like to…

• MOTIVATE STUDENTS• USE AUTHENTIC MATERIAL• OFFER VARIETY• SURPRISE STUDENTS• SUPPLEMENT EFL / ESL COURSE• HAVE EVERYTHING PREPARED • HAVE PHOTOCOPIABLE

MATERIAL

CHALLENGE EDUCATION

Lesson Plans especially prepared to include authentic material in the

EFL ESL classroom.

PRACTICAL, FLEXIBLE AND MOTIVATING TOOL

SEQUENCE APPROACH

Movie Guides

• Teachers’ Notes

• Answer Key

• Students’ Handouts (Photocopiable)

1 MOVIE GUIDE 1 MOVIE

AT LEAST 15 LESSON PLANS

EVERY LESSON PLAN

Beginner - Elementary – Pre Intermediate – Intermediate – Upper Intermediate

Creative Lesson PlansStimulating framework for

classroom discussion

THEORY

BEHIND

MOVIE GUIDES

Conditions for Language Learning (Jane Willis 1996)

MOTIVATION

USE OF LANGUAGE

EXPOSURE

Success / Satisfaction

Achievable goals

Exchange meanings. Create positive / supportive / low stress atmosphere

Rich comprehensible input of real language.

INSTRUCTION

Advantages of Authentic Material

• Expose students to different contexts of communication. (real discourse)

• Enhance the classroom with varied situations.• Reinforce the relationship between the real

world and the classroom.• Offer clear examples of different registers• Language change is reflected

Material that is relevant to the students’ life and personal interests

Authentic material is perceived by the learner as useful, lifelike, and interesting.

Advantages of Movies in the EFL classroom

• Motivate students

• Show socio-cultural attitudes, uses of language, feelings. Contextualized

• Speech matches body language. Auditory and visual input.

• Non-verbal behaviour / paralinguistic features of the spoken text are now available to the learners

• Normal rate of speech - Natural discourse

SELECTING THE MATERIAL

EXPLOITABILITY

TOPIC

LENGTH / CHUNK

LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY

ACCESSIBILITY

Classroom exploitation

Variety

Short piece

Different Language Levels

Culture

Background knowledge

Activities that foster learning

•Clear purpose

•Success oriented

•Top-down process

•Bottom-up process

•Monitoring comprehension

Students need to be motivated and stay motivated

Students confidence in their listening ability

STUDENTS’

ACTIVE

ROLE

GRADING THE TASK

THE VISUAL INFORMATION +

KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD +

GRADED ACTIVITIES

REWARDING EXPERIENCE

Not the input

STUDENTS TEACHERS

CATALOGUE

Search the catalogue in the website

A new Movie Guide witnh at least

15 Lesson Plans every month!

LEVEL INDEXES

Select the Lesson Plan that best fits your students’ needs.

• Delivered via the Internet

• Simply print and teach

•Link Movie Guides to your curriculum

• Reduce time, work and costs

MOVIE GUIDES

e-books

Julio 2006

1st Movie Guide – Spanish as a Second Language

España - Valladolid

Movie Guides to Teach Spanish as a Second Language

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