Hi,

I would very much welcome feedback on the viability of: ‘Cinema Movie Packages to teach English as a Foreign Language‘

In effect, we propose taking exerts from some very popular movies (i.e. Harry Potter) and presenting it with sound manipulated to show original version and then provide a chance (with dialogue stripped off) for participants to perform their version (with on-screen word prompts). This would be backed up by full interactive DVD menus and course notes.

In your opinion, would this type of package be a useful tool to people learning English as a Foreign Language? Our TEFL staff (of 2) think it would be but I wanted to open it up to a much wider audience?

Cheers,
Tony

Reply To: Cinema Movie Packages to teach English as a Foreign Language

If I’ve understood correctly, the idea is to provide an excerpt without the dialogue and have students create their own dialogue. This can be a fun and motivating tool, and you can manipulate it to produce all sorts of different target language – have the students imagine the characters are arguing, for example, or discussing the future.

Have a look [url=http://www.eslbase.com/articles/video]here[/url] and [url=http://www.eslbase.com/articles/video2]here[/url] for other things you could do with these excerpts too.

Dan