(Movie Worksheets)
Link to Folder on Google Drive Here
Presentations on Google Slide:
Part 1 (slides, pub), Part 2 (slides, pub), Part 3 (slides, pub), Part 4 (slides, pub), Part 5 (slides, pub), Part 6 (slides, pub), Part 7 (slides, pub), Part 8 (slides, pub), Part 9 (slides, pub), Part 10 (slides, pub), Part 11 (slides, pub)
Worksheets:
Part 1 (drive, docs, pub), Part 2 (drive, docs, pub), Part 3 (drive, docs, pub), Part 4 (drive, docs, pub), Part 5 (drive, docs, pub), Part 6 (drive, docs, pub), Part 7 (drive, docs, pub), Part 8 (drive, docs, pub), Part 9 (drive, docs, pub), Part 10 (drive, docs, pub), Part 11 (drive, docs, pub),
Here is another set of movie worksheets I've designed for relatively low level young learner students.
These worksheets follow the same pattern and approach as the worksheets I previously designed on Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, and 101 Dalmatians. In order to avoid repeating myself too much, I'm going to try to keep the explanation to a minimum here.
Showing movies in class is based on the philosophy that young learners benefit most from lots of input. The majority of this input should be highly graded, but I think some authentic material in the classroom is not a bad thing. (I try to limit myself to about 5 minutes of this movie at a time, so they get about 5 minutes of authentic input during a class of 2 hours. Although, granted, by the time the movie is played twice, this ends up taking between 10-20 minutes of class-time.)
Although the actual movie itself is far above the students' level, the worksheets are based off of the "grade the task not the text" philosophy, and so the intention was to make the task as easy as possible.
In the class, the movie worksheets follow these steps.
1. Students are introduced to 5 vocabulary words on PowerPoint.
2. Students read together "The Story Last Time" section on the PowerPoint
3. Students listen quietly to the section of the movie
4. Students are given the script, and fill in the missing words.
5. The movie is played again. Students follow along with their script to check their answers. The teacher pauses the movie after each answer is given, to ensure everyone has the right answer, and to allow weaker students to find their place in the script again.
6. After the movie finishes, final feedback is on PowerPoint.
The pictures for "The Story Last Time" Section on PowerPoint all come from this website here.
I had trouble finding a good script online for this movie. There were a bunch of half-completed scripts, but no good full script. The one I mainly used as a base is from this website here, but because of the many errors and omissions I ended up having to edit it substantially.
For the movie itself, I used two different sources. The best quality version I could find was on Kiss Cartoon at this link here. But because the media player on youtube is more user friendly, I also sometimes used a youtube version of the movie here. The Google Slide links include both versions of the movie. However, as the movie is copyrighted material, it's only a matter of time before both videos are taken down, and the links become invalid. At the time of this writing, however, all the links are still working.
Reflections on the suitability of this movie in particular
Now that I'm all finished using this movie, I've come to the conclusion that this was probably not my best choice. Well, hindsight is 20/20. It seemed like a good idea beforehand. I had fond childhood memories of this movie, and both stories have extended climaxes that are really fast paced and funny. Also the fact that this movie is in fact a combination of two shorter stories meant that in both cases the stories were more streamlined, and there was a lot less filler before getting to the climatic scenes. (For those of you unfamiliar with this film, this is a 1949 Disney movie that is actually a combination of two shorter stories. The first half is an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. The second is an adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.)
...However...
Both of these stories are heavily based on narration, and so contain long stretches of the voice of the narrator, instead of dialogue. (Dialogue would have been preferable to me, because it more resembles authentic spoken English, and because it's broken up into smaller units.)
Also both stories get their flavour from a narrator who uses a very literary vocabulary, which makes it unsuitable for beginner students.
Unfortunately I didn't fully realize what a bad choice this movie was until we were already several lessons into it, and by that point I decided to just keep going and finish the movie anyway.
I still think this movie was of some value to my students, but a different movie with more dialogue and easier vocabulary would have been of more value to them. (Oh well, the best of us make some bad choices every now and then. I'll just try to do better next time. The next movie I'm doing with my students is The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which has much simpler language.)
Quizlet Folder HERE
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 2
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 3
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 4
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 5
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 6
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 7
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 8
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 9
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 10
* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad Part 11
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