This document outlines an English project at Skoutari's Lyceum school for the 2012-2013 school year. The topic is British and American cinema, from documentaries to cartoons. The project aims to promote English language use and develop students' reading, writing, and research skills through collaboration and presentations. Students will work in groups to research and present on different movie genres. One group will focus on documentary films. Another will cover action movies, discussing genres and plot summaries. A third will examine adventure movies like Pirates of the Caribbean. A fourth will provide context on the history of cartoons and animated films like Inspector Gadget and Ratatouille. The project aims to improve cooperation and language skills while exploring various film genres

1. ENGLISH PROJECTENGLISH PROJECT
IN SKOUTARI’S LYCEUMIN SKOUTARI’S LYCEUM
SCHOOL YEAR 2012-2013
TOPIC:TOPIC:
“BRITISH AND AMERICAN CINEMA:
FROM DOCUMENTARIES TO CARTOONS”

2. MAIN AIMS
• COLLABORATION AMONG STUDENTS
AND CO-OPERATION BETWEEN
TEACHER AND STUDENTS
• RESEARCH
• PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF
THEIR WORK

3. OBJECTIVES
• PROMOTION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
USE
• ACTIVATE READING AND WRITING
SKILLS IN ENGLISH
• EMPLOY RESEARCE SKILLS
• CO-OPERATION MANNERS IN ACTION

4. INITIAL THOUGHTS
• STUDENTS’ BACKROUND
• CHOOSING THE TOPIC
• WRITING IN ENGLISH
• SEPARATING THE GROUPS
• CHOOSING MOVIE KINDS

5. DURING THE PROJECT
• MOVIES’ CHOICE
• MOVIE KINDS’ HISTORICAL BACKROUND
• MOVIE VIEWING
• MOVIE COMMENTS
• POWER POINT

6. EXPECTED DIFICCULTIES
• FORMING GROUPS
• UNEQUALITY IN LANGUAGE SKILLS
• UNWILLINGNESS TO WORK
• NOT COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF
POWER POINT

7. UNEXPECTED DIFFICULTIES
• NOT COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF
POWER POINT
• HUGE AMOUNT OF DATA, NOT ALL
WOULD BE USED
• NOT MUCH AUTHENTIC WRITING
• MEETING AFTER SCHOOL HOURS
• NOT AVAILABLE COMPUTER LAB
EVERY WEEK

8. CONCLUSIONS
• SUPERVISING GROUPS IS HELPFUL
TO THE TEACHER
• GETTING TO KNOW STUDENTS
BETTER AND MORE PERSONALLY
• ACQUISITION OF WRITING AND
READING SKILLS THAT WILL BE
NEEDED
• WORKING IN GROUPS WIIL BE
USEFUL IN STUDENT’S LIFE

9. GROUP AGROUP A
DOCUMENTARY FILM
• There are many categories of
documentaries which try to prove an
aspect of reality.
Categories: 1)Historical
2)Social
3)Economical
4)With animals

11. Ancient Aliens is an American television series that premiered on April 20, 2010 on the
History channel. Produced by Prometheus Entertainment. We are going to discuss
some episodes. Also we mentioned about The Lost Gods.
• Ancient aliens:
• Temples of Gold
• Angel And
Demons
• The Evidence
• Lost Gods about:
• The Egyptians
• The Greeks
• The Romans
• The Maya
• The Celts

12. GROUP BGROUP B
ACTION MOVIES

13. ACTION MOVIES
a) HISTORICAL BACKROUND OF ACTION
MOVIES
b) NOTES ABOUT THE MAIN PLOT OF THE
MOVIES
c) CONCLUSION

14. GROUP CGROUP C
Adventure Movies
Movies:
Pirates Of Caribbean
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
X-Men: First Class

15. The crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow, from Davy Jones’s
Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by
Cutler Beckett and Davy Jones, who plan to extinguish piracy.

16. IRON MAN
When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to
build an armored suit after a life-threatening
incident, he ultimately decides to use its
technology to fight against evil.

17. GROUP DGROUP D
SOMETHING ABOUT
CARTOON’S HISTORY
• A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has
changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or
painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works. An artist
who creates cartoons is called a cartoonist.
• Walt Disney was born on December 5th, 1901, in Chicago and died on December 15th, 1966, in
California L.A.
• He was an American movie producer, director, scriptwriter and cartoon designer.
• Cartoons are movies in which drawn figures star instead of actors. The heroes are usually
animals or fictional creatures with funny faces that speak and react as if they were human beings.
The creation of cartoons as well as other movies is based on metaisthima.
• At first the scenes of the cartoon movie were drawn separately. The first drawings were put on
transparencies and then drawn to create a moving cartoon hero. Every drawing was slightly
different from the next one. Then all drawings were photographed on the row and so the whole
film was made. When the film was shown the figures looked like they were really moving.
• The first cartoons’ film was shot by S. Blakton in 1907, but Walt Disney’s movies were real works
of art.

18. THESE ARE THE CARTOONS WE DEALED
WITH:
1.Inspector Gadget
2.Raining Meatballs
3.Barbie
4.Mickey Mouse
5.Ratatouille

19. HERE ARE SOME USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT OUR
WORK:
• The cartoons are movies that enjoy young and older people as well.
Through cartoons we watch technology developing, and new
gadgets appearing that are very useful to mankind. We also follow
the development of new methods of preventing crime through the
use of these gadgets. Moreover, family issues are touched upon, for
example the fact that babies are ‘delivered’ by a stork in some
cartoons. This shows that the heroes want to continue behaving in
an innocent way towards kids. However in ‘Barbie’ series we have a
wedding taking place but not children being born. Except for that,
cartoons often show the customs and the culture of a people, its
traditions and habits. In every cartoon friendship plays an extremely
important role in the relationships of the heroes; pets are always
depicted as the hero’s best friend as well. The world sees down on
less bright heroes and tries to lessen their confidence and
smartness.
• The innocent and less evil heroes are the ones that always win.
• There is always a pet that befriends the heroes.

20. THANK YOU!THANK YOU!