Ollie Ollie

TP8
B2/C1 level

Materials

Main Aims

  • For students to practice writing skills in the context of film reviews

Subsidiary Aims

  • For students to learn about structuring a review
  • Introducing new vocabulary used to describe films

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Open Jamboard. Ask class what they think about my taste in films, talk a little bit about personal film preferences, then open the class up to hear about their personal favourite films.

Text Analysis (10-11 minutes) • To provide a model of the writing that students will produce and to highlight useful language

Share google forms reading task, and have students decide names for each section of film review and send answers. Check responses Ask students to think of alternate sections for a film review. Examples: Setting and production design Acting and performances Themes and messages Historical or cultural context Originality Personal impact Ask students if they think the review is more formal or informal? Informal. But why? Get them to think about how structured it is, and ask if it’s 1st or 3rd person: 3rd person, and very structured which is why it’s more formal, suitable for publication. Talk about how crucial it is to sound objective in this context. How do sentences start? Do they always use the same word or are they varied? Varied, so it reads more interestingly. Get them to think about the vocabulary, do any of the words confuse them? is the vocab varied? Why? To be more impactful and descriptive.

Productive task (9-11 minutes) • To give students writing practice

The students write their own short film reviews according to the structure and style of language they've studied.

Peer Correction (8-10 minutes) • To allow students to review each other's writing and do peer correction tasks

Students are paired up and use the content checklist to provide feedback on one another's film review. They can also perform peer error correction for one another.

Feedback and error correction (6-8 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Perform some error correction, focusing on most prominent grammatical mistakes.

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