Apr 20 2008
What Are The Best Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL?
One of my future “The Best…” lists will be “The Best Popular Movies & TV Shows For Learning English.”
Please leave me a comment with your suggestions…
4 responses so far
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Smallville
Prison Break
Corner Gas
Lost
I think the best way is to get students involved in the show, but do not show them a complete episode if possible. This way they’ll want to watch the rest on their own.
I sincerely hope that “Friends” does not make the list - I hate that show with a passion.
I just realized that this thread was also asking for movies
An Inconvenient Truth takes about 2 hours for me to do 12 minutes of clips throughout - students don’t see the whole thing.
Almost Famous
Stand by Me
and considering using Mr. Brooks, but haven’t prepared anything yet.
To mention some sitcoms ( which I think are better because of the time) I have used Seinfeld and Joey (especially the episode “Joey and the ESL).
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I have to go to work.
See you and thank you for your help.
Sebastian
sebmer21.edublogs.org
It’s really hard to use a movie in an ELLing classroom….unless you do it over a longer time frame. But that “kills” the movie.
I think for the most part movies should supplement teaching and using trailers would be a much better teaching focus OR just using certain parts of movies students have already seen.
I used to teach a “movie” lesson each week. One of my favs was “BIG” . I’ll start a thread and upload the whole movie with tons of activities and lessons on EFL Classroom 2.0 . This movie works well when cut into parts ……..
David
http://eflclassroom.ning.com