Movies, Movies, Movies and Classes
It’s been a week of movies.
I’m gonna have to postpone writing about the man magazine article due to my unfortunate incapability to edit it. It goes on and on and on… as you can see from the last post I made.
Mid Term Test has long gone and we’re trying to wind down a little and some of my classes were scheduled to have a Movie Show session (that’s what we call audiovisual-based class session).
I chose Eight Below for two of my Intermediate classes, trying to get them to relate the events and circumstances that cause the story to roll - also to try and see if they can talk about events happening during the duration of the dogs lone stay at the field base. Since those were what we’ve been learning so far, Relating Events and Circumstances and Talking about Duration.
For my CAE 1 class I chose Braveheart. Lots of things that we could talk about, discuss about and so on and so on. We could have, that is. First they groaned the fact that they didn’t like that kind of movie, having caught the glimpse of the DVD cover. As it turned out, they were much too mesmerised by the story they were rendered almost speechless.
They were supposed to go home at 7 and they protested when I cut the movie short at 7.30. This was the second time in history where my students protested and said they didn’t want to go home.
This one was somewhat normal though. I mean, it was Braveheart - everybody would’ve fallen in love with the movie. The first time my students didn’t want to go home was when I was teaching Defining vs. Non-Defining Relative Clauses. Crazy, right?
Due to a set of rather upsetting circumstances (Lapis Legit, how could you!!! Hehehe, congratulations though), two new teachers are coming in. I wouldn’t really say that they are a hundred per cent new though. I don’t think I should be dishing things out too soon here but what I am is ecstatic. I was so thrilled I was almost disappointed that weekend had come along.
If only this guy was also coming to teach.
