This ELT lesson plan is designed around a short film called Vocabulary 1 by Becky James. In the lesson students write and tell a story, watch a short film and reconstruct the story it tells.
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Language level: Elementary (A1)– Intermediate (B1)
Learner type: All ages
Time: 60 minutes
Activity: Writing and telling a story, watching a short film, speaking and writing
Topic: Storytelling
Language: Vocabulary related to houses, past simple tense
Materials: Short film
Downloadable materials: vocabulary 1 lesson instructions
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Vocabulary 1 from Becky James on Vimeo.
Step 7
In their pairs students try to retell the story.
Step 8
Ask the whole class to reconstruct the story.
Step 9
Tell your students they are going to watch the film again. This time they should check if their reconstructed story was correct.
Step 10
Get your students to retell the story again.
Step 11
Ask your students if there were any similarities between their stories and the story shown in the film.
Homework
If you use a coursebook which has pages of vocabulary with illustrations or photos of the target vocabulary, choose 2 pages at random and select 10 words from each page. Dictate the 20 words and tell your students that their homework is to write a story which uses all the items of vocabulary. If you don’t use a coursebook with pages of illustrated vocabulary, choose 10 words from one subject area you are going to study and 10 from another, and follow the same procedure outlined above.
I hope you enjoy this ESL lesson.
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from Film Lessons – Film English http://film-english.com/2016/09/26/vocabulary-1/
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