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Presenting a section of the film in class. Set-up:
Projecting on a screen of sufficient size for the
number of students or using an interactive whiteboard works best.
Otherwise, one can use a monitor if large enough for the group. Students'
use of individual computers is less satisfactory since the group dynamic
is lost.
Different teachers will use different techniques.
Here are some of the many techniques that work well:
- Screening one segment without showing the transcription
and asking students to say all they can on what they have just seen;
- Pausing on selected frames and identifying characters,
clothes, positions, objects, actions, relationships;
- Asking students to identify what the teacher is
pointing to;
- Engaging the students in an exchange about the
action in order to test their comprehension and give them an opportunity
to use some of the language contained in that segment;
- Asking students to anticipate what the actors will
do or say next;
- Using the pause (II) and play (>)
buttons to play short chunks of speech to be imitated by the students;
- Playing the first line of a dialogue, stopping
with the pause button and asking students to provide the next line
imitating the actor's pronunciation as closely as possible (with
the exception of Jules...). This technique is used in the SPEAKING
EXERCISES- most students find it amusing to converse with Catherine,
Jim, Thérèse, Jules, etc.;
- Working intensively with sound only before showing
the transcription.
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