This ELT lesson plan is designed around a short film by Farda Shemal titled The Other Pair and the themes of altruism and empathy. Students watch a short film, write a story, and speak about a story.
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Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) –Intermediate (B1)
Learner type: All ages
Time: 60 minutes
Activity: Watching a short film, writing a story, and speaking about a story
Topic: Empathy and altruism
Language: Vocabulary related to shoes, narrative tenses
Materials: Short film
Downloadable materials: the other pair lesson instructions
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Step 1
Ask your students to come up with as many different types of shoes as they can in 2 minutes.
Step 2
Elicit boots, trainers, slippers, flip-flops, etc.
Step 3
Tell your students they are going to watch the first part of a short film about a pair of shoes. As they watch they should try to answer the following questions:
- What’s the time? – 11.55
- What type of shoes is the poor boy wearing? – flip-flops
- What is the boy trying to do with his shoes? – to repair them
- Why does he stare at the other boy? – because the other boy’s shoes are beautiful
- How is the poor boy feeling? – perhaps he’s envious of the other boy’s shoes
- What happens to the other boy’s shoe? – it falls off as he gets on the train
Show the film until 03:05.
Step 4
Get your students to compare their answers, and then hold a plenary session based on their answers.
Step 5
Put your students into small groups. Ask them to predict the rest of the story. Give them 10 minutes to come up with their stories. Help them with vocabulary as necessary.
Step 6
Get a member of each group to read out their story and then discuss them.
Step 7
Tell your students they are going to watch the rest of the film. As they watch they should compare their narratives with the story the film tells. Show the rest of the film.
Step 8
Ask your students to discuss the following questions in pairs:
- How does the film make you feel?
- Can you think of any adjectives to describe the two boys?
- Does the film have a message?
Step 9
Hold a plenary discussion based on the questions.
Step 10
Tell your students that the film is based on an event in the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Read out the story.
“As Gandhi was stepping aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train started moving. To the amazement of the other passengers, Gandhi took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first shoe. Later a fellow passenger asked him, ‘Why did you do that?’ Gandhi replied, ‘The poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track will now have a pair he can use.’”
Step 11
Ask your students to discuss the story and its meaning.
I hope you enjoy this ESL lesson.
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from Film Lessons – Film English http://film-english.com/2016/03/30/the-other-pair/
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