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Lesson Plan on Global Issues and Child Soldiers
This lesson is based on a short film called War School written and directed by Ben Newman , and the themes of global issues, war and child soldiers . Step 1 Show your students the quotation from Aristotle below about … Continue reading
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Lesson Plan on Money and Greed
This lesson is based on an award-winning comedy short film called The Black Hole directed by Philip Sansom and Olly Williams , and the themes of black holes, money and greed. Step 1 Write up Black Holes on the board … Continue reading
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Lesson Plan on Jobs
This lesson is based on an award-winning comedy short film called The Job directed by Jonathan Browning , and the themes of jobs and employment . Step 1 Ask students what makes a good company to work for. Get feedback and … Continue reading
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Lesson Plan on Empathy
This lesson is based on a beautiful short film called Mankind is No Island directed by Jason Van Genderen, and the themes of homelessness and empathy. The film was the winner at the Tropfest Short Film Festival New York this … Continue reading
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Lesson Plan on Memories
This lesson is based on an award-winning film called Apricot by Ben Briand and the subject of memories. Step 1 Write Childhood Memories on the board, and ask students what springs to mind. Step 2 speaking Put your students into … Continue reading
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Lesson Plan on Racism
This lesson is based on a beautiful short film called Strangers directed by Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv, and the theme of racism. Step 1 Show students the picture of two men below. Ask your students to talk about the following … Continue reading
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Presentation on Cineliteracy at the TESOL-Spain Convention
I gave a presentation on Promoting Cineliteracy at the 34th TESOL-Spain National Convention in Madrid this weekend. In the session I argued that there is little doubt that print literacy will remain a key competence in the future, but that … Continue reading
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Lesson Plan on Communicating More Effectively
This lesson is based on Signs a beautiful short film by Patrick Hughes about communication. Step 1 Write Communication on the board, and ask students what different forms of communication there are. Students may well come up with the following … Continue reading
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