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Talking about films / Revising past simple - Beginner level
Talking about films / Revising past simple
Beginner level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice and review of past simple in the context of going to the cinema
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking practice in a using simple past in the context of favourite films
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
To start off the lesson, the students will be shown an image of flatmates who are talking in the kitchen. They will first discuss this in pairs, then we'll listen to the ideas they come up with.
Next, they will get a dialogue with phrases in no particular order and try to piece it together, enacting it for each other. I will demo the first sentences on the whiteboard once every one has their stack of papers.This way, they will review the target language and the present tense in a controlled speaking exercise. Students will get a key with the correct order to crosscheck their results.
After this, I will elicit from them how to form questions ("I went to the cinema and I saw a film, what could you ask me?" - We're looking for "Did you enjoy it?", "Was it interesting?" etc., then for answers to it "Y/N": "Yes, I did", "No, I didn't")
The students will get a fake film synopsis with gaps. ("You went to the cinema yesterday. This text is about the film you watched. Please fill in the gaps. Now guess the title of the film!") ("Now tell your partner about the film you saw. Was it interesting?" make pairs "Now find someone who has the same film as you") I will hand them the key, after which we will discuss which of these verbs are regular and which ones are irregular (they will do this in pairs first). Then we'll record these on the board. I'll focus a bit on "marry", which is regular despite the "y" becoming a "i". I'll compare it to "study". We'll try to elicit some more verbs from the students that are useful to talk about films and clarify into which column they belong, model and drill where appropriate. The last task is a free exercise in which students write a short synopsis of a film they have seen, and then explain it to their peers, but without telling each other which one. ("Think of a film you REALLY saw. Write a summary about it, like this." Once they are done: "Tell the others about the film, but DON'T tell them the name. The others have to guess the film." CCQ: "What are you going to do?" "Talk about a film." "Are you going to say the name?" "No.")
In the last part, we will hear from students what films their partners have watched and what they were about.
