Aim: Connect the quotations with films and roles.

Organisation: group work

Materials: three sets of 15 cards (see handout) or a videotaped cassette including clips from different films

Estimated time: 15 minutes

Step 1: The teacher divides the students into three groups and gives each group a set of cards.

Step 2: The teacher explains that each group has either the film titles, the names of the actors/actresses together with their roles and the famous quotations. The task of each group is to think of the two missing pieces of information.

Step 3: The groups share the information and try to put the cards in the correct order.

Step 4: The teacher helps whenever it is necessary.

Step 5: The teacher checks the answers and encourages the whole class feedback session.

As an extension to this activity the teacher could cut out of a magazine some pictures which depict the scenes from these films, and let the students identify them.

Second activity: jigsaw viewing

Aim: Discussion about the missing information.

Organisation: group and pair work

Materials: a pre-recorded video cassette, a video recorder, post-its/a sheet of paper

Estimated time: 15 minutes

Step 1: The teacher tells the students to divide into two groups.

Step 2: The first group leaves the classroom while the second group watches the chosen sequence either fast forward or without sound and no subtitles.

Step 3: The groups swap places and the second group either listens to the sequence without being able to see the picture or views the sequence backwards.

Step 4: The students form pairs according to the groups they belonged to earlier; one from the first group and one from the second. They discuss the sequence together and try to reconstruct it.

Step 5: Each pair shares the ideas with the rest of the group.

Step 6: If the participants wish they may watch the whole sequence again to resolve potential misunderstandings.  

Gordana Pecnik works as a teacher of English at a Secondary School for Mechanical Engineering in Celje, Slovenia. Currently she is finishing an MA degree in English Teaching Methodology. Her special interest is ESP.