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LEVEL : Form 4 (Intermediate-Advance)

TIME : 30-40 minutes

AIMS :

1. To encourage students to speak through expressing their opinions
2. To elicit students’ critical thinking
3. To practice students sending email

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

1. One computer per group of 2-3 students with an Internet connection and a web browser;
2. Each student or group need to have an email address.

WEBSITES:

http://movies.yahoo.com http://www.screenit.com/search_videos.html

PREPARATION:

1. Locate sites dedicated to movies
2. Using information from the sites, prepare a worksheet for set induction (word search game)
3. Prepare questions to be asked for speaking and follow-up activity

PROCEDURE:

1. Ask the students for the movie titles that they know or watched
2. Give the worksheet prepared. Ask them to search for the movies titles according to the clues given (names of actor/actress and year of released) from the movies. Tell students that the answers are available online
3. Send students to the sites chosen, and ask them to complete the worksheet.
4. When all the students have completed the task, check the answers with them.
5. Ask each group to choose their favourite movie from the available websites and ask them to tell their friends for about 3 minutes:
• Why do they like the movie? and
• If you can be one of the characters in the movie, who do you want to be? Why?

FOLLOW-UP

1. If time permits, demonstrate how to send email to the students and give the email address to the students
2. Ask them this question:
• Imagine that you are the famous movie critics, choose one movie from the website and write a review on the movie in a paragraph. Send your reviews to wanieytm@yahoo.com
3. Students can complete the task in the class if time permits or tell them to complete it later if they have access to computer outside the class.