A recovering grammar-translation Latin teacher's journey into Comprehensible Input
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Monday, April 16, 2018
Laundry Quandary - Movie Talk
Here is a fun Movie Talk which I did last week. With my Latin 2 classes, I am finishing up the last section of the Perseus myth (the part which deals him with rescuing Andromeda from the monster) which I have adapted, and I needed to preview the words in periculo (in danger) and servat (rescue/save). Once again, using Jason Fritze's National Movie Talk database, I was able to find a Movie Talk which addressed these words in a very humorous way. The movie short is called Laundry Quandary, and it is about a superhero whose service is needed on his laundry day.
Lots of good discussion on superheroes in the target language during the Movie Talk! I could have done a whole period of PQA's just on superheroes.
I was kind of disappointed with the end of the movie short, as the woman ends up becoming all "fan girl" over Captain Beautiful. I would have liked to have seen the woman end up being a superhero and her saving the city.
A number of students really liked the soundtrack - a couple students said to me, "You have picked some really good movie talks lately - they have had good music."
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