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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?
Conversation QuestionsMovie Industry. A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom. Why do you think the center of the movie industry in the United States began in Hollywood, southern California, next to Los Angeles? Have you seen many Hollywood movies? Give some examples of Hollywood movies you have seen and your opinion of them.
The Internet TESL Journal 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 the movie The Graduate ...
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.
Using Movie Trailers in an ESL CALL Class. 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 ...
Watching Movie Trailers in the ESL Class. 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 ...
The movie project reached all the students with the great improvement in speech and confidence showing up among the weakest students. A final added benefit for me as an instructor was being given hard evidence that my students had accomplished something they felt worthwhile.
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. They should talk about the main plot, actors and actresses, provide a synopsis and tell why they have chosen that particular movie. Once they have discussed and edited ...
The International Movie Database is an example of a source of authentic material that would appeal to most teenage and adult students of ESL. It contains biographies of stars, plots of movies, famous quotations, cast information, records of awards received by films, and commentaries by viewers. This lesson requires that students practice on ...
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 ...
