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A Single Life. This ELT lesson plan is designed around a short film by Job, Joris & Marieke and the theme of stages of life. In the lesson students practise vocabulary related to the stages of life, discuss stages of life, watch a short film, and speak and write about it. Support Film English Film English remains free and takes many hours a month to research and write, and hundreds of dollars to sustain. If you find any joy or value in it, please consider supporting Film English with a monthly subscription, or by contributing a one-off payment. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 60 minutes Activity: Watching a short film, speaking and writing Topic: Stages of life Language: Vocabulary related to childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.

Materials: Short film Downloadable materials: a single life lesson instructions Step 1 Ask your students the following question: “What are the different stages of life?” Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 1. CGI Animated Shorts HD: "Francis" - Directed by Richard Hickey. Day in the life of a Stormtrooper. In a Heartbeat. This lesson plan is designed around a short film titled In a Heartbeat and the theme of love.

Students learn and practice expressions using the word “heart”, watch a short film trailer, predict and write a story, watch and discuss a short film, and watch and discuss a video in which elderly people give their reactions to the short film. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: Practicing expressions using the word “heart”, watching a short film trailer, predicting and writing a story, watching and discussing a short film, and watch and discussing a reaction video Topic: Love Language: Vocabulary related to love Watch the film. Check out the lesson plan Remember that Individual Membership and Institutional Membership of Film English Club allow unlimited access to all Film English Club lesson plans, viewing guides and other teaching material. The Small Shoemaker | Teaching Ideas.

Age Range: 7 - 11 By: Sam Collins Genre(s): Comedy, Historical On the streets of Paris stands Mr. Botte’s shoemaker shop. Mr Botte’s life making beautiful shoes is disturbed when a most peculiar street vendor pulls up outside of his shop. English Why do Mr. Maths Measure the feet of children in the class and work out what the length measurements are for each shoe size.Work out some problems involving stocking a shoe shop. Science Test which materials would be best to make shoes. Computing Make an animation of a moving shoe, like the ones in Mr. Design Technology Design your own shoes. Art Go out in your local town and sketch the shop fronts.Make some 3d shops from boxes.Design a comic strip of the story. Music How does the music help to tell the story?

Geography Why do we need shops? History Look at some old pictures of the shops in your local town. Physical education What makes a good PE shoe? Languages Do you think that Mr. Lost Property. This EFL lesson is designed around a beautiful short film titled Lost Property by Asa Lucander. Students do a dictation, work out meanings of the verb ‘lose’, speak about lost items, watch a trailer and short film, and write a story. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 90 minutes Activity: Dictation, working out meanings of the verb ‘lose’, watching a trailer and short film, speaking and writing a story Topic: Lost property Language: the verb ‘lose’, commonly lost objects and present tenses Materials: Trailer and short film Downloadable materials: lost property lesson instructions The School for Training is a small specialist teacher training institute in Barcelona, providing innovative courses of the highest quality for teachers from around the world.

Find out more about the courses and how to enrol here. Overview Step 1 Dictate the following sentences to your students: Step 2 In pairs students check they’ve got the same sentences. Step 3. Kirsten Dunst Selfie Short Film Called Aspirational by Matthew Frost. Alma by Rodrigo Blaas | Animation Short Film. The Journey. This EFL lesson is designed around a short film commissioned by John Lewis as their Christmas TV commercial. Students practice vocabulary related to journeys and Christmas, prepositions, song lyrics, speaking and writing. I would ask all teachers who use Film English to consider buying my book Film in Action as the royalties which I receive from sales help to keep the website completely free.

Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Advanced (C1) Learner type:Teens and adults Time: 60 minutes Activity: Watching short film, completing the lyrics of a song, speaking and writing Topic: Journeys and Christmas Language: Narrative tenses, prepositions and vocabulary related to Christmas Materials: Short film and song lyrics Downloadable materials: the journey lesson instructions the power of love lyrics Support Film English Film English remains ad-free and takes many hours a month to research and write, and hundreds of dollars to sustain.

Step 1 Have you ever built a snowman? Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6. The Other Pair. This ELT lesson plan is designed around a short film by Sarah Zorik titled The Other Pair and the themes of altruism and empathy. Students watch a short film, write a story, and speak about a story. I would ask all teachers who use Film English to consider buying my book Film in Action as the royalties which I receive from sales help to keep the website completely free. Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) –Intermediate (B1) Learner type: All ages Time: 60 minutes Activity: Watching a short film, writing a story, and speaking about a story Topic: Empathy and altruism Language: Vocabulary related to shoes, narrative tenses Materials: Short film Downloadable materials: the other pair lesson instructions Support Film English Film English remains ad-free and takes many hours a month to research and write, and hundreds of dollars to sustain.

Step 1 Ask your students to come up with as many different types of shoes as they can in 2 minutes. Step 2 Elicit boots, trainers, slippers, flip-flops, etc. Step 3. Fetch (1998) clip 1 on ASO. The Shovel. A Shovel With My Name On It.