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Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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The above activities can be adapted in different ways as follows: With picture and audio on: Use the pause control to stop a scene and have students predict what will happen next. Use the pause control to stop after a particular line of dialogue and have students predict the next line With audio off: Have students predict the situation and characterizations based on viewing an entire scene without the sound. Have students predict lines of dialogue after viewing an entire scene without the sound. Have students predict individual lines of dialogue by using the pause button to stop the scene With picture off: Have students predict the situation and characterizations by listening to the soundtrack without watching the picture. Specific Focus: Narrative Tenses While watching the movies, you can also assign the students’ attention on specific focus. Look at the following example of how to focus on narrative tense. Level: Pre-intermediate and above Target language: Past simple & Past continuous (narrative tenses) ‘He dropped the brush when he was painting the wall’. ‘He ran along the street, then he turned the corner…’ digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 69 Action verbs Sequencing linkers – then, after that, while, when… Preparation: 1. You need a short piece of film or cartoon in which there is plenty of action or visual interest. Mr. Bean or Tom & Jerry work well. 2. Watch the piece of film beforehand and note down all the actions that it shows.. Procedure: 1. Group the Ss in threes or fours. 2. Play a very short sequence. Ask Ss to note down the actions they see. 3. At the end, get the groups to agree on the actions they saw and make a definitive list. 4. Ask groups to approach the whiteboard and write their lists. 5. Re-play the DVD and tick off the actions. 6. Ask the learners to make sentences, using their lists for guidance. 7. Learners join sentences into a narrative text. Notes A short video like this is a lively and motivating way into the genre of narrative. (Adapted from LAPIS-ELTIS, 2008c) Variation to the above procedure can also be seen in the following activities. Level: Elementary and above Target language: Various: ‘is doing’ (present continuous for current activity) ‘is going to do’ (future action) ‘she has just’ (past action with present significance) Preparation 1. You need a piece of film or cartoon in which there is plenty of action or visual interest. Mr. Bean or Tom & Jerry work well. 2. Prepare beforehand which places in the video you are going to pause. Procedure: 1. Divide the class into small groups ( 3 or 4 Ss) 2. Tell the learners they are going to watch a short piece of film. 3. Play the DVD and pause it each time something happens. Going from group to group in turn, ask Ss to say what is happening or what has just happened. e.g. ‘The cat is falling’, ‘the mouse has just jumped in the fridge’ 4. Go round the class and elicit sentences from the groups (e.g. I think he’s going to shoot the dog) 6. If a group speculates correctly they score a point. 7. Do this again and again several times. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 70 Notes: This activity can be used to practice almost any tense or combination of tenses: present continuous, going to, past simple and continuous, present perfect, past perfect, etc. (Adapted from LAPIS-ELTIS, 2008c) Download 1.05 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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