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Movies. A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom. What is your all-time favorite movie? What is your favorite movie? Are there any kinds of movies you dislike? If so, what kinds? Why do you dislike them? Do you like to watch horror movies? Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction books?
John Gebhardt. jgebhardt [at] gol.com. Ritsumeikan University (Shiga, Japan) Heianjogakuin University (Shiga and Osaka, Japan) This article provides an example of using movie previews or trailers based on a CALL class. It demonstrates how a lesson can be done using movie trailers, the advantages of this kind of language study, and offers ...
Films in Your own Language. A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom. Do you have a film industry in your country? What is your general impression of it? If you do not have a film industry in your country, where are most of the movies that you watch made? Do any other countries make films in your language?
Internet Movie Database. In this lesson we will learn how to use the Internet Movie Database to find out about movies. Internet Movie Database is a site that lists over a hundred and eighty thousand (180,000) movies. You can find a specific movie by: Movie title. Just type in a part of the title of the movie you are looking for.
Neil Heffernan. hefneil [at]hotmail.com. Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan) The importance of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in today's ESL/EFL classes cannot be understated. However, finding specific sites to use in class can be a delicate process. This paper outlines the techniques that can be used in class with a movie ...
Nearly 80% of students felt more motivated to study English while making the movie and after the movie. Ninety-eight percent of the students enjoyed making the movie and eighty-two percent of the students would rather make a movie than have a regular test even knowing that they will spend a lot more time making a movie. Student Opinions
The Lesson. The Emperors Club is a movie starring Kevin Kline and is based on The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin. Mr. Hundert, a Western Civilization teacher at a private school for boys in the U.S., educates his students in the classical studies of Greek and Roman scholars, but he also believes that it is his ultimate responsibility as an ...
Movie Review Level: Any Level. This could be carried out in pairs or in groups of 3-4. Pre-activity:The tearcher should have taught students about adjectives and adverbs. Activity: students can choose a favourite movie, cartoon or television series to review.
Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL ClassroomA Project of The Internet TESL Journal. Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom. A Project of. The Internet TESL Journal. If this is your first time here, then read the Teacher's Guide to Using These Pages. If you can think of a good question for any list, please send it to us.
Politeness in Movies. Donna Hurst Tatsuki. tatsuki [at] kobeuc.ac.jp Politeness in requests can be marked in a variety of ways in English, not only with the word "please". Here is an activity to draw learners' awareness to the language forms in English that are used to mark politeness or the lack of it. To make this more concrete, a scene from ...
