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Be Creative competition shortlist 2013: revealed Autism Friendly Screenings Book now for these screenings of Ice Age: Continental Drift in selected cities this April The Odd Life of Timothy Green online resource Online resource suitable for 7-11 year olds addressing aspects of Literacy and PSHE Chimpanzee resource and competition for primary schools Learning materials on Chimpanzee for 5-11 science and geography. Venera Mukhamatzyanova. 10 Creative Ways to Use Popular Movies in Fun ESL Lessons. Bored of book work?

10 Creative Ways to Use Popular Movies in Fun ESL Lessons

Tired of teacher-talking? Want something exciting for your students? Then watch a movie! Now, I know what some of you might be thinking: Isn’t watching a movie a cop-out? 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. 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!

Teaching With Video. Renaud Davies looks at practical ways of getting students more involved when using video in the classroom.

Teaching With Video

In an age of immense visual stimulation, language education has remained remarkably text-bound and can appear dull to students compared to their world outside the classroom. Video, in particular, is an invaluable educational tool that teachers often neglect to use or misuse. It is not uncommon for teachers to simply play a movie in class without challenging students or getting them involved. So, the question that concerns us today is, “How do we get our students actively involved when using video in the classroom?” To begin, the most important thing is that you make your video lessons meaningful, fun, and interesting for your students.

So, what are the benefits of using video? Video helps to raise a learner’s pragmatic awareness, that is, the importance of context in deciding the speaker’s intention. Now, let’s take a look at the following three-step guide to creating a video lesson. Movies for learning english with english subtitles. Oscar Week Special: 7 Teaching Resources on Film Literacy. The Academy Awards are just around the corner, and there are a number of nominated films that can be great teaching tools for educators this year.

Oscar Week Special: 7 Teaching Resources on Film Literacy

With the abundance of media messages in our society, it's important to ensure students are media literate. The Oscars provide a great opportunity to use the year's best films to teach students about media and film literacy. Not to mention, films can also be an engaging teaching tool for piquing interest in a variety of subjects and issues. In this compilation, you'll find classroom resources from around the web that cover many of this year's nominated films, as well as general resources for using film as a teaching tool. First, we'll start with an Edutopia classic, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese discussing the importance of visual literacy and the power of film as a teaching tool. Film Lesson Plans and Interactive Activities: Into Film is a U.K.

Film Education. By Kieran Donaghy. LingualNet - Learning English Through Media. Learn English Through Movies » Blog Archive » The BFG – Trailer 3. ESL Lesson PLan: Movie/Film. Extra Movie Activities: Crossword: Reviews movie vocabulary.

ESL Lesson PLan: Movie/Film

Movie Cloze: Reviews movie vocabulary. Movie Word Search: Reviews movie vocabulary. Movie Survey Activity: Good walk and talk exercise. Movie Synopsis Reading Activity: Students read movie synopses and try to guess the movie. Movie Synopsis Information Gap: Students relay information about movie contents and show times. Actors and Characters Pattern Worksheet Children's Animation Reading Activity Related: The Parts of a Book Section also covers the themes of plot, setting, character, and title.

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1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns

Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin.