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هارون /Unit 1: (Writers and stories)

Lesson: 1



Film Circles



Scaffolding Speaking for EFL


Students





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What is a Film Circle activity?



A Film Circle is a structured group project

where five students are assigned different

roles to perform according to their abilities

 and interests.A worksheet about the movie

The Circle, discussing sense of community

and the way people are seeing the online

world and participating.



Each student in the group has to analyze a

film from a different perspective and present

conclusions. Every role is designed around

specific activities that are completed before,

while, and after watching a film.



The process is scaffolded—at every stage

the activities include contextual support to

build on background knowledge and make

understanding easier, including the use of

worksheets with graphic organizers, visual

representations, word banks, and sentence

starters. Without this scaffolding, the project

would not have been possible.


 


 
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The effective way to build students‟

interest of learning English vocabulary is

 by using media which can increase

students' enthusiasm for learning English

 vocabulary and enrich their vocabulary.



The suitable media that can be used is

audio visual media because the media

contains pictures and voice such as

using film.There are many films that can

 be used to teach vocabulary to young

learners. One of them is Shawn the

Train Film series.



For example, before the film students learn


relevant vocabulary and discuss a preview


 of what they are going to see. While watching


 the film, students practice basic listening and


 reading skills.



After viewing the film, group members engage


 in cooperative learning as they share with


each other the information related to their role


 assignments; this exchange ensures that


each student contributes to the discussion


and practices speaking.

 


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Example:


We chose the movie Goal! The Dream Begins

 

(Cannon 2006).


This is the story of a Mexican boy who lives

illegally in the United States. His dream is to be

 a professional football player, but he suffers

from asthma. He is given the chance to play for

 Newcastle United, where, after facing many

challenges, he succeeds.



This film worked perfectly for our students

because the majority of them are football fans,

 and the message of perseverance is inspiring

for young people. Assigning five student roles

for a Film Circle.


 


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1. The Designer: 



The student with the Designer role summarizes

 the entire film through graphic representation

of the main scenes. This role uses visual

intelligence, sequential thinking, and oral

summarizing skills.



The task is to create pictures that illustrate a

timeline of the plot and contain corresponding

sentences about what was happening at each

point in the film.



The Designer is given a worksheet with a

timeline and blank boxes for the pictures that

have labels such as “Santiago tries out for

Newcastle United.” A word bank is also

included for language support, with connecting

words like next, then, and after this.



We created this role for our Film Circle to give

students who learn visually a chance to work

with pictures and to reinforce the other

students’ understanding of the plot during the

discussion.


 


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2. The Soundtrack Analyzer:



In the role of the Soundtrack Analyzer, the

student uses a worksheet to take notes about

the bands, songs, and styles of music from the

 film to promote group discussion.  Apart from

that, the Soundtrack Analyzer relates the style

 of music to specific scenes in the film.



Thus, this role matches the emotions shown in

scenes from the film with music played at those

 specific moments and shares that information

with the group.



The worksheet used by the Soundtrack

Analyzer includes a graphic organizer

 containing certain scenes juxtaposed against

 a word bank describing emotions and musical

styles, along with sentence starters about

 music to help take notes.


 


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3-The Vocabulary Enricher


The Vocabulary Enricher role is taken from

Fink’s (2011) lesson plan, and the task is to

classify key words from the film and share

them with members of the group.



As an adaptation for lower-level students, we

used a handout with circles representing

various themes from the film, and the student

had to discover words related to each theme.



For example, if the concept on the handout is

football, the student might write the words

player, sports agent, and football. The English

subtitle function helps the Vocabulary Enricher

to both listen and see new words, which helps

the student complete the worksheet.



The new vocabulary is shared with the group

members, who benefit from learning new

vocabulary in context.


 


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4. The Questioner:


Another role from Fink (2011) is the Discussion

 Director, which we call the Questioner, a role

that directs the student to create questions for

members of the group.



The Questioner asks questions to get

information and promote group discussion

 about the film.  As an adaptation for

lower-level students,



we gave the Questioner a graphic organizer

showing different parts of the film and a list of

topics to help form questions, as well as a

guide to create basic questions and start a

conversation, such as the sentence starters “I

think ________” and “It seemed that ________.”


 


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5. The Checker:


As the name indicates, the Checker evaluates the

contributions of each group member.  We found

this role to be very important in our context since

students need structure and accountability in

 order to work in groups without direct teacher

supervision.



On a worksheet, the Checker completes specific

information about how the group worked and

 notes the strengths and weaknesses of each

member’s participation in the group discussion.



The Checker uses a worksheet to check the

accuracy of other group members’ observations,

 including a graphic organizer and sentence

starters related to the film’s main ideas.



The Checker is responsible for participating in

group discussions to get sufficient speaking

practice, and he or she also has to use notes

 and the worksheet to give oral feedback to

 group members. This role promotes peer

 checking and autonomous learning.


 


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Pre-viewing activity:


As a preparation activity, we studied the

 textbook vocabulary and activities related to

sports; this preparation helped the students

understand the film better when they

watched it.



Students were also pre-taught\ vocabulary

 from the film through pictures and examples,

and they were told that specific words would

 be useful during the project. A cloze activity

 was useful to pre teach the vocabulary:



Students were given a script of the movie trailer

 where several deleted words were replaced by

 blank lines.  As they watched the trailer, the

students had to read and listen in order to fill in

the missing words.



This listening activity helps prepare them to

understand the film when they watch it and

gives them written support for some of the

concepts they will encounter in the film. Since

the students are at a low level of proficiency,

 this extra support is necessary to make the

language they will hear comprehensible.



 


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Viewing activity:


In the second class, the students watch the film

 with English subtitles, which were used to

support students’ listening with a written

representation of the words. While watching,

each student fulfills his or her assigned role and

 pays attention to the language and the concepts

 of the film.



Students will be watching and listening for

different information that will be shared later

during group work. Although we did not expect

our students to understand every word of the

film, we did expect them to understand the plot,

the major scenes, the order of events, the

characters, and the emotions associated with

each event.



This expectation was communicated explicitly

 so that students did not waste valuable class

time trying to understand every detail. This

approach resulted in added practice in the

important skills of reading and listening for

main ideas.

 


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Post-viewing activity:


In the third and last class the students worked

 in their groups, taking turns to present the

information they gathered and participate

 in a discussion of the film they had seen.



The discussion was very basic, often with

students asking and answering simple

questions or reading their observations

 out loud.



As our students progress, we hope to make

the activity appropriate for a more advanced

level by taking out some of the supports and

encouraging students to use more creativity

 in their roles to express ideas and opinions,

and to enrich the overall discussion.

 


Resources:


1-TILO Project.



2-Active learning 1



3- Active learning 2



4-Active Teaching.



5-Critical Thinking 1



6- Critical thinking 2



7-Critical Thinking Test.



8- Learning outcomes.


View Resources:



1-t The USA Culture.




2- The UK Culture




3-English Proverbs




4-Teaching diverse and multi-cultured

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Teaching Forum 2006, Volum 44,



Number 2



1-Ten Helpful Ideas for Teaching English




2-Vocabulary Activities




3-Language through Stories



4-English Clubs




5-Using Drama with Children




6-Teaching Prepositions



7-Activities for Middle School



8-Using Favorite Songs and Poems




9-Songs for Children





10-Pictures for Classroom Activities




11-The Lighter Side      



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