Tangled - Practicing the Simple Present

Tangled is a sweet animation, and it has a great scene to contextualize the use of the present simple. I like the way this scene helps students understand that they are talking about her routine, and the tasks she has to carry out everyday. 

Beginners

Simple present

Routine

Grammar practice

Discuss in groups

What is your favorite fairy tale?

Who is your favorite fairy tale princess?

What do you know about Rapunzel?

What does Rapunzel do everyday in her room in the tower? List as many activities as possible.

Watch the movie and check how many sentences on your list are in the movie scene. If you have more that 4 say BINGO!

eg. Rapunzel does the dishes everyday.

Shrek 3 - Practicing Reported Speech

I will be teaching the reported speech again. I took a course by Michael Lewis many years ago during a LAURELS conference, the audience was discussing how many times reported statements appear on Corpus and why coursebooks put so much emphasis on teaching this grammar point. But we EFL teachers have to do it and we want to do it well. Meaning, form, pronunciation and...Use!
Here is a presentation to practice the reported speech and engage students in an interesting conversation about favorite movie scenes... He said that, he insisted, she said he said... and so on...

• Students take a movie quiz.
• Practice the reported speech. Download PDF -http://www.scribd.com/doc/32926553
• Ask and answer questions about a movie of their choice and describe a favorite scene.

A Movie Quiz

A Movie Quiz

Download a worksheet here

E- writing takesplace as my students will leave comments on movieclip and write about the movies they talked about on our class blog. Enjoy!

A movie segment on movieclip