Parisian Love: vocabulary, speaking and writing task

Aim: students speak and/or write about long distance relationships
Procedure: students prepare to watch a 50 second  video about a long distance relationship  by carrying  out the tasks provided on the enclosed PowerPoint. Later students write a composition on the subject.
Possible special occasion: St. Valentine's
Level: B1 or higher. Also a good task to help students write their first composition in PAST SIMPLE

You can download the materials from this site HERE 

Sample of task on Power Point

Materials:

•  Video: Parisian Love. You can watch it on-line (Youtube) or download it with the rest of the materials
• Teacher's Notes. Key to task
• Power Point with task for the students  

You can download the materials from this site HERE  

THIS IS THE VIDEO 

Tasks by María  Zabala Peña.

Thanks to John Lavery,  speaker at the September 2013 British Council workshops 
for providing me with this video

Children's toys around the world. My most prized posssession. Oral presentation prompt

Aim/Procedure: 

• students look at the pictures taken by Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti.
• students find the similarities and differences among the pictures.
• students are ready to bring a picture of themselves with a most prized possession, which can be a toy or anything else/ They might wish to bring their most  prized object to class, instead of the picture. 

Level: any but students need to know how to use simple verbs in the past simple 

You can download  the presentation by clicking HERE 

Materials:

• Power point with pictures, questions prompts  and possible answers (correction key)

These are some of the pictures you can see in the Power Point. You can download  the presentation by clicking HERE 

Possible extension: geography. The power point indicates the place of origin of each child.  Find the places on a map.

Source of the pictures/original  text :HERE

Please visit Diana Turner scoop it  to find texts for ESL teachers. I got this idea when browsing her selection of texts: HERE

Saint Valentine's Day. Oil and vinegar

 Use this scene as an oral prompt or a writing task prompt.


This short film features a night in the kitchen. Utensils fall in love while the oil bottle feels lonely. The the Modena Vinegar bottle shows up. Wait until after the credits so see the struggle of Mrs. Modena

Materials: short silent video (3minutes)
Level: any as long as student...
Option A) students are  able to explain the story in the past
Option B) students can tell the story using present/ present continuous.
The  outcome will depend on the level of your students. See below for higher level vocabulary
Possible special occasion: Saint Valentine
Useful  upper level vocabulary: Tears, pool of oil, bottle spout, moonshine, cutting board, salt shaker, pitcher, mucus, lonely, wooden salad servers, bouquet/posy, the sink, slippery
Upper level Verbs: cry /weep, rub against, sniff, frolic,pick up, fall in love, hope, shine, reflect on the eyes, slip, sigh, drop, try to climb up

To see the video in You tube, click HERE

You can also watch the video underneath

Talking in the past: short graffiti video

 Use this scene as an oral prompt or a writing task prompt.   
Materials: short silent video (1 min, 30s)
Level: students need to be able to explain the story in the past. This can be done using simple past or compound tenses, depending on the level of students
Possible special occasion: International day of disabled people

If you want to practise the future, stop video at minute 0:49 and students can predict the end of the story.
This silent short movie tell us an intimate love story between two members of a family

The video has .wmv format.

Click HERE to download or watch the video (full screen)

You have the video in my blog too, below






Idea for the activity: Carme, our school secretary, sent me the video and I prepared the activity.

Hunger awareness day: "Chicken a la carte" video

Level: lower intermediate and upper
Possible special occasion: hunger awareness day
Language items:
Students need to be able to say/write simple sentences in present and future.
Students need to talk about pros and cons of junk food
Students need to know some adjectives to describe feelings
At the end there are suggested oral and written activities to choose depending on the level of students

Activity based on video: Chicken a la Carte by Ferdinand Dimadura ( summary of the short film underneath). Length of video: 6 minutes

Ferdinand Dimadura’s video shows how a poor family lives on the leftovers of normal citizens. The video consists of images and music. The proposed activities (PowerPoint) make students think about their manners, eating habits and good luck.
Materials:

1. Instructions for teachers
2. The PowerPoint presentation that leads students through the different activities
3. Video (if you do not have an internet connection in your class)

Click HERE to download PowerPoint, word document with instructions and video in MP.4 format


DON'T FORGET THIS: you can watch the video:

A) at the YOUTUBE LINK PROVIDED in the POWER POINT

B) by downloading it from my site (see link above). Make sure you have current versions of REAL PLAYER, MEDIA PLAYER or VLC installed in your computer as these are MP4 videos.

C) by using the embedded version underneath (full screen not possible)

1. Preview of power point . This is a preview and therefore, links and transitions with mouse clicks won't work. To use this in class, download Power Point from my site. The link to my site is provided above.

YOU CAN PREVIEW THE ACTIVITY HERE

Link to video: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1081/Chicken-a-la-Carte#videoDetail

Watch video on blog ( full screen not available)


Film synopsis: This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization. There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people.

Genre: Drama | Produced In: 2005

Idea for the activity: Carme, our school secretary, sent me the video and I prepared the activity.