This EFL lesson is designed around a beautifully animated short film written, directed and illustrated by artist Celia Bullwinkel titled Sidewalk that portrays a woman’s journey through the passage of time. In the lesson talk about the various stages of life and how we change physically and emotionally, watch a short film and describe how a woman changes through the course of her life.
Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2)
Learner type: Teens and adults
Time: 60 minutes
Activity: Watching a short film, speaking and writing
Topic: Growing up and aging
Language: Stage of life, vocabulary related to bodies.
Materials: Short film
Downloadable material: sidewalk lesson instructions
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Step 1
Put your students into small groups and ask them to discuss the following questions:
- What changes do we experience as we go from a child to a teenager, a young adult, a middle-aged person and an old person?
- What physical changes are there?
- What emotional changes are there?
Step 2
Get feedback from the whole class and write up any useful vocabulary on the board.
Step 3
Pair your students and ask them to tell their partner about they experienced as they went from one stage of their life to another.
Step 4
Get feedback from the whole class.
Step 5
Tell your students they are going to watch a short film in which the various stages of a woman’s life are portrayed as she walks along a pavement (sidewalk in American English). As they watch their task is to notice physical and emotional changes.
Show the film.
Sidewalk from Celia Bullwinkel on Vimeo.
Step 6
Pair your students and ask them to tell their partner about the changes they noticed. Encourage them to use the vocabulary in Steps 1 and 2.
Step 7
Get feedback from the whole class.
Step 8
Tell your students you are going to show the film again, but this time you are going to pause at each stage of the woman’s life and their task is to say what each stage is , and what physical and emotional changes they notice and what the woman is feeling.
Show the film again, pausing to discuss each stage.
Step 9
Ask your students the following questions:
- How does the film make you feel?
- Does the film have a message?
- How would the film be different if it were about a man?
Homework
Ask your students to write a description of how they have changed physically and emotionally as they have grown up.
I hope you enjoy this ESL lesson.
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