Learning English and American Culture Through Movies

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Learning English and American Culture Through
Movies

• Presenter Shu-ping Cheng (Anne)
• EFL 537, MS TEFL
• Southern New Hampshire University
• Instructor Prof. Lyra Raibov

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Description of Class--I

• ESL program in USA
• Level--- High intermediate
• Age Young adults (20-24)
• Class size 12 students
• Class time 6 hours (2 hours/day)
• Language background Mixed from Japan, Taiwan,
  Korean, and Columbia.

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Description of Class--II

• Previous Computer Work MS Word, e-mail,
• Search engine, and discussion board.
• Recent Work Use PowerPoint in presentation
• Class goals

• Learning English and American popular culture
  from the movies
• Searching and organizing useful information
  online
• Accomplishing personal PowerPoint presentation

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Materials

• Computer Lab
• Computers with internet access
• Software requirementMS office
• Projector

• Other Materials
• Handout
• Computer tutorial

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Objectives

• Language Objective
• Learn American popular culture from movies
• Reading/Writing/Speaking/Listening

• Computer Literacy Objective
• Use search engines to do the research.
• Skimming, scanning, and determining
• beneficial information.
• Use PowerPoint in presentation.

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Pre-computer Activities
1st Class

• Introduction
• -Explain the objectives of the lesson.
• -How, and why use movies to learn the
  language and culture.

• Brainstorm
• -Movie categories
• -What kind of movie do you like?
• -What information that you think the
  audience will care about the movies?

• Offer students some useful website
• -ESL notes, The Internet Movie Database

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Presentation of the Lesson

• Each student choose one American movie for
  his/her topic
• Task--Create a movie advertisement

• the information about the movie
• Major characters
• Plot summaryetc.
• -the idiom or slang that students learn from the
  movie
• -other audiences comments about the movie
• -students personal thought about the movie
• -the movie reflects which aspects of the American
  culture?

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Student practice--I
2nd Class

• Computer tutorial how to use PowerPoint
• Students explore the information in the class
• Teacher helps students deal with using Power
  Point or searching information

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Student practice--II
3rd Class

• Each person present 10 minutes in PowerPoint
• Encouraging other students to ask questions and
  to discuss

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Follow up Activities

• Students are required to write a reflection
• journal about

• Self-evaluation about the presentation
• React to class presentations
• Describe what you have learned from practicing
  in the topic

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Closing

• Potential Problems
• how to choose an appropriate movie to learn
  language
• Evaluation of students learning

• Online research
• PowerPoint presentation
• Classroom discussion participation
• Writing assignment

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