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Heart
Mind
Memory
“Some people come
into our lives and
quickly go. Some stay
for awhile and leave
footprints on our
hearts. And we are
never, ever the same.”
Heart
Mind
Memory
Be the
teacher they
will never
forget..!!
It’s all in your
story.
Your story is
your map of the
world
“The answer lies
between the
intersection of
image and text”
Nick Sousanis
The Wimpy kid movie-clip
Ten more ideas for
movie clips and
mindmaps
Ten more ideas for
movie clips and
mindmaps
Ten more ideas for
movie clips and
mindmaps
Ten more ideas for
movie clips and
mindmaps
Title
Movie
clip
Brainstorm
Create
Share
1
1) Give students the title of a movie clip they are
about to watch.
Handout blank mind map templates that you have prepared, either on hard
copy or digitally.
Have them brainstorm in groups or pairs.
Tell students to imagine what the movie will be about and add words
and images to their map to represent the storylines they predict.
Then watch the movies as a whole class.
Ask students if the real movie was very different from their stories.
Watch again and ask students to map the similarities and differences on a
new mindmap.
Now put students into pairs from different groups. They must compare and
contrast their maps and tell each other about the similarities and
differences.
Story
fantasy
Movie
Topic
Keywords
2
2) Follow-up from idea one or stand-alone
activity.
As a follow –up students write the story of their
imaginary movie or even create their own movies
using digital technology.
As a stand-alone activity, you can give students a
topic based on a theme you have in your course
book. Give them key words in mind map form for
revision and tell them to put these words into a
topic-based story or their own movie.
Mind
map
Present
Teams
Guessing
games
Yes/no
3
3) Follow-up to idea two or else as a stand-alone
activity.
Students create their stories or movies at home.
Then they create mindmaps of their movies for class. In class each
student or pair/group presents the mindmaps to the class. Divide the
class into teams.
The class have to guess what the story or movie is about based on the
map, asking only yes/no questions.
The map should be large enough for everyone to see or else on an o
overhead projecter/or in digital format.
Read
Listen
Map
Storytelling
Design
Display
4
4) Alternative follow-up to three or stand-alone
activity
Students create movies. They write the story of the movie at home. Next
day they read out their stories to the class. In this case there are no visual
aids, so it’s essentially a listening activity.
Students listen and map the story.
Have map templates handy so as not to waste time. They just add keywords
to their maps.
Afterwards get students to retell the stories to each other and compare
with the original. Then they can watch the short movie.
Finally, they can embellish/design their maps with images and display around
the class, keep in special project folders or display online through blogs etc.
Focus
Parts
Characters
Parts of
speech
feelings/mood
appearance
5
6) Alternatives to idea five.
Instead of letting student just map anything they want, ask them to focus on
particular parts of the story.
For example:
Ask them to mind map the characters as they imagine their characteristics
and appearance.
Ask them to mind map only nouns, verbs, events.
Alternative, divide them into teams. Each team has a separate focus, some
map the events, others the ideas, other the verbs, others different parts or
speech, others map the feelings or mood.
Group one
Transcript
No
video
Group two
Images, no
sound
visual plots,
words
6
7) Oral storytelling & mixed media.
Sample lesson plan from
my website and the
movie
“My Left Foot”
More from the Irish Film Society
Grammar
and tenses
Movie-
clip
Lexical-
grammatical
maps
7
8) Movie-grammar maps.
Imagine a Mr. Bean movie clip. Mr. Beam always does ridiculous things.
Example of grammar to practice: should/shouldn’t have
Hand out mind map templates with lexical branches (and/or images) and
should/shouldn’t along the branches.
Students watch the movie and write down what Mr. Bean should/shouldn’t
have done.
What others ideas can you come up with?
Vocabulary
Brainstorm
Watch &
recognise
8
8) Jumbled words
Give students sets of jumbled words in groups.
Tell them to arrange the words onto a mind map
and then act out their stories for the class.
Then show everyone the real movie –clip and tell
them to map the true story
Impressions
feelings
Sharing
/chatting
9
9) Impressions and feelings
Find an emotive movie clip and let the class watch
it.
Also hand out simple mindmap templates and tell
them to jot down their feelings onto branches
which represent scenes in the movie..
(option)
Roleplay that they are at the cinema with friends
or date & they chat about the movie after,
describing their impressions.
Adjectives
Scenes
reviews
10
10) Adjectives
Students watch movie clip and write down
adjectives to describe different parts of the
movie scenes as depicted on mind map branches.
After put them into groups and tell them to put
all of their adjectives together.
Now they can direct their own movies scenes
using these adjectives to make up a story.
Poetry ideas
Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition
Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition
I sat there with Sally
We sat there, we two
and I said “ how I wish we had
something to do
Too wet to go out, to cold to play
ball
so we sat in the house, we did
nothing at all
Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition
“Say!
In the dark?
Here in the dark!
Would you, could you, in the
dark?”
― Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and
Ham“I do not like green eggs and
ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-
Am.”
“Try them, try them, and you
may! Try them and you may, I
say.”
poetry
link
Seussville
10 more ways to use poetry
Link to my
article on
poetry
Class poetry groups online
& in social networks
Acrostic poetry
Grammar through poetry
Limerick poetry
Classic literature and poetry
Word-powered
Picture
poems
Pattern poems
Rap poems
10 more ways to use poetry
Link to my
article on
poetry
Class poetry groups online
& in social networks
Acrostic poetry
Grammar through poetry
Limerick poetry
Classic literature and poetry
Word-powered
Picture
poems
Pattern poems
Rap poems
Poster
lin k
10 more ways to use poetry
Link to my
article on
poetry
Class poetry groups online
& in social networks
Acrostic poetry
Grammar through poetry
Limerick poetry
Classic literature and poetry
Word-powered
Picture
poems
Pattern poems
Rap poems
Poster
lin k
Order of adjectives:
Opinion
Size
Shape
Age
Colour
Nationality
Material
The cute, small, chubby,
ancient, red-haired, Irish
leprachaun.
10 more ways to use poetry
Link to my
article on
poetry
Class poetry groups online
& in social networks
Acrostic poetry
Grammar through poetry
Limerick poetry
Classic literature and poetry
Word-powered
Picture
poems
Pattern poems
Rap poems
Memory
Movies
10 more ways to use poetry
Link to my
article on
poetry
Class poetry groups online
& in social networks
Acrostic poetry
Grammar through poetry
Limerick poetry
Classic literature and poetry
Word-powered
Picture
poems
Pattern poems
Rap poems
Word play,
songs,
Movies,
numbers,
shapes
Mnenmonic peg system
10 more ways to use poetry
Link to my
article on
poetry
Class poetry groups online
& in social networks
Acrostic poetry
Grammar through poetry
Limerick poetry
Classic literature and poetry
Word-powered
Picture
poems
Pattern poems
Rap poems
Comics!!
In education
Social and emotional
10 more ways to use poetry
Link to my
article on
poetry
Class poetry groups online
& in social networks
Acrostic poetry
Grammar through poetry
Limerick poetry
Classic literature and poetry
Word-powered
Picture
poems
Pattern poems
Rap poems
Comics!!
In education
Social and emotional
10 more ways to use poetry
Link to my
article on
poetry
Class poetry groups online
& in social networks
Acrostic poetry
Grammar through poetry
Limerick poetry
Classic literature and poetry
Word-powered
Picture
poems
Pattern poems
Rap poems
Comics!!
In education
Social and emotional

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Using Poetry and Movies to Teach Grammar and Vocabulary

  • 1.
  • 2. Heart Mind Memory “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”
  • 4.
  • 5. It’s all in your story. Your story is your map of the world “The answer lies between the intersection of image and text” Nick Sousanis
  • 6. The Wimpy kid movie-clip
  • 7. Ten more ideas for movie clips and mindmaps
  • 8. Ten more ideas for movie clips and mindmaps
  • 9. Ten more ideas for movie clips and mindmaps
  • 10. Ten more ideas for movie clips and mindmaps
  • 12. 1) Give students the title of a movie clip they are about to watch. Handout blank mind map templates that you have prepared, either on hard copy or digitally. Have them brainstorm in groups or pairs. Tell students to imagine what the movie will be about and add words and images to their map to represent the storylines they predict. Then watch the movies as a whole class. Ask students if the real movie was very different from their stories. Watch again and ask students to map the similarities and differences on a new mindmap. Now put students into pairs from different groups. They must compare and contrast their maps and tell each other about the similarities and differences.
  • 14. 2) Follow-up from idea one or stand-alone activity. As a follow –up students write the story of their imaginary movie or even create their own movies using digital technology. As a stand-alone activity, you can give students a topic based on a theme you have in your course book. Give them key words in mind map form for revision and tell them to put these words into a topic-based story or their own movie.
  • 16. 3) Follow-up to idea two or else as a stand-alone activity. Students create their stories or movies at home. Then they create mindmaps of their movies for class. In class each student or pair/group presents the mindmaps to the class. Divide the class into teams. The class have to guess what the story or movie is about based on the map, asking only yes/no questions. The map should be large enough for everyone to see or else on an o overhead projecter/or in digital format.
  • 18. 4) Alternative follow-up to three or stand-alone activity Students create movies. They write the story of the movie at home. Next day they read out their stories to the class. In this case there are no visual aids, so it’s essentially a listening activity. Students listen and map the story. Have map templates handy so as not to waste time. They just add keywords to their maps. Afterwards get students to retell the stories to each other and compare with the original. Then they can watch the short movie. Finally, they can embellish/design their maps with images and display around the class, keep in special project folders or display online through blogs etc.
  • 20. 6) Alternatives to idea five. Instead of letting student just map anything they want, ask them to focus on particular parts of the story. For example: Ask them to mind map the characters as they imagine their characteristics and appearance. Ask them to mind map only nouns, verbs, events. Alternative, divide them into teams. Each team has a separate focus, some map the events, others the ideas, other the verbs, others different parts or speech, others map the feelings or mood.
  • 21. Group one Transcript No video Group two Images, no sound visual plots, words 6
  • 22. 7) Oral storytelling & mixed media. Sample lesson plan from my website and the movie “My Left Foot” More from the Irish Film Society
  • 24. 8) Movie-grammar maps. Imagine a Mr. Bean movie clip. Mr. Beam always does ridiculous things. Example of grammar to practice: should/shouldn’t have Hand out mind map templates with lexical branches (and/or images) and should/shouldn’t along the branches. Students watch the movie and write down what Mr. Bean should/shouldn’t have done. What others ideas can you come up with?
  • 26. 8) Jumbled words Give students sets of jumbled words in groups. Tell them to arrange the words onto a mind map and then act out their stories for the class. Then show everyone the real movie –clip and tell them to map the true story
  • 28. 9) Impressions and feelings Find an emotive movie clip and let the class watch it. Also hand out simple mindmap templates and tell them to jot down their feelings onto branches which represent scenes in the movie.. (option) Roleplay that they are at the cinema with friends or date & they chat about the movie after, describing their impressions.
  • 30. 10) Adjectives Students watch movie clip and write down adjectives to describe different parts of the movie scenes as depicted on mind map branches. After put them into groups and tell them to put all of their adjectives together. Now they can direct their own movies scenes using these adjectives to make up a story. Poetry ideas
  • 31. Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition
  • 32. Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition I sat there with Sally We sat there, we two and I said “ how I wish we had something to do Too wet to go out, to cold to play ball so we sat in the house, we did nothing at all
  • 33. Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition “Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark?” ― Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I- Am.” “Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.” poetry link Seussville
  • 34. 10 more ways to use poetry Link to my article on poetry Class poetry groups online & in social networks Acrostic poetry Grammar through poetry Limerick poetry Classic literature and poetry Word-powered Picture poems Pattern poems Rap poems
  • 35. 10 more ways to use poetry Link to my article on poetry Class poetry groups online & in social networks Acrostic poetry Grammar through poetry Limerick poetry Classic literature and poetry Word-powered Picture poems Pattern poems Rap poems Poster lin k
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