I always love giving presentations with Bob and Lauren, because I get the chance to learn so much from them during their demos. Lauren teaches French, so learning some French via CI is ALWAYS helpful, because I get to experience her demo like a student. Yesterday, Lauren's demo was a Movie Talk in French, and I really liked what she did...so much that as a result, I actually typed it up in Latin and did it today with my own Latin 1 classes. It is with Lauren's permission that I share her Movie Talk with you here.
The Movie Talk is called Short and Sweet, and Lauren used it to introduce words such as boy, girl, loves, big, small, not, sad, says. It is actually very short, but you can do SO much with this. I was actually surprised at how engaged my students were in watching it.
English script
Latin script
Observations
- When Lauren demonstrated this, she only showed it up to 1:50 the first time, because there is a plot twist which occurs. It is best when the Movie Talk is shown completely through a second time uninterrupted with the ending.
- Lauren also showed it without sound the first time. She says that she likes to do this in order to keep students focused. Normally I will do a Movie Talk with the sound, but for this one, I would do the first run-through without sound, because I found the background music to be very annoying - it sounds like something from the Kahoot soundtrack.
- My students absolutely were totally taken in by the plot twist at the end (as was I when I saw it the first time).
Thanks, Lauren - my students really enjoyed it.
I loved the movie and the script. Yet I don't know the basics of the movie talk technique, can you point me a beginner's guide to this activity?
ReplyDeleteHere's my write up on how to do a Movie Talk:
Deletehttp://todallycomprehensiblelatin.blogspot.com/2016/06/movie-talks.html
Dear Keith, I'm doing this Movie Talk tomorrow with my 12yo tirones, I'll tell you how it went.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear this - hope it goes well.
Delete