Cool English Movie Clips: A Whole Lesson in Every Scene
Students want to watch movies in English. The whole film is the hard part.
Cool English Movie Clips is a new series in the Videos section, built one scene at a time. Three films are live now: Super Mario Galaxy, The Pursuit of Happyness, and The Devil Wears Prada. Between them they hold 22 scene lessons.
Scenes run in the order of the film
Each film opens on a wall of numbered scenes that follow the story from the first minutes to the last. Super Mario Galaxy has nine, The Pursuit of Happyness has eight, and The Devil Wears Prada has five. Every scene stands on its own, so a class can work through a film across several lessons or drop into a single clip for one. Finished scenes are marked, and the count sits at the top of the page.
Three ways into a scene
Before the clip plays there is a choice. Prediction questions put a still from the scene on screen and ask what happens next, with three answers to argue over. Nothing is marked at that point; once the clip has played, a button brings the predictions back so the class can check them. Audio only hides the picture completely and leaves students working from the dialogue alone. The third option simply plays the scene, with subtitles a button away.
Prepare, check, retell, discuss
The panel beside the video moves through four steps. Prepare holds six words from the scene, and tapping one shows the meaning, an example sentence, and a button to hear the word said aloud. Check asks multiple-choice questions, and every question carries a short replay of the exact moment the answer appears, so students can watch that moment again instead of the whole clip. Retell is a gapped summary built from those same six words, which students complete and then say aloud from start to finish. Discuss closes with open questions, each one holding a sentence starter and an example response for the students who want them.
Two levels, two sets of words
A level switch sits above the video. On easy, the vocabulary in the first Pursuit of Happyness scene is graffiti, spell, carry, sell, clean off, and daycare. On hard, the same scene teaches profanity, misspelled, portable, for a living, be convinced, and make a commitment. The comprehension questions and the retell text change with the level.
A worksheet for every scene
The print button asks for a scene and a level, then builds two pages: a matching task for the six words, comprehension questions to answer in full sentences, the gapped retell with a word bank, and the discussion questions with starters and ruled lines. An answer key toggle sits beside it.
The movie has not been simplified. What has changed is the way students move through it.
This is the start of the series, and films will keep going up. What goes up next is partly your call. Animation and family films, comedies, action, teen movies, classics, something nobody has thought of yet. Tell me what your classes actually want to watch and I will start the list.
The level switch is a smart touch, since one scene can serve very different classes. I also like that the prediction questions stay unmarked until after the clip, which keeps students guessing. her trees
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