Conversation Class Lesson Summary
Language Resident Name: Blanca Barranco Lafuente
Day and Date: 12th November
Language and Level (intermediate or advanced class): Spanish Advanced
Class theme/topics discussed: Cinema
Goal of the class:
- To exchange information about cinema
- To acquire cultural knowledge about Spanish cinema festivals and awards
How did you structure the class?
- Warm up: Students answer some questions about personal preferences regarding cinema and films.
- Activity 2: Students see the flyers of different films that have received Spanish awards and match them with the corresponding genres and synopsis.
- Activity 3: Students become part of the jury of the awards. After seeing part of the trailers of those films, they have to vote for the best film, best music and best animation (sharing their personal preferences and professional aspects that they can notice).
- Extra final activity: Students become directors and potential leading actors and actresses. That is, each “director” interviews different potential actors in order to hire the most suitable one for a specific genre that will be randomly assigned. The directors will make questions that are important for them in order to hire an actor suitable for that film genre and the actors invent a personality that would be suitable for that genre as well. Once the interactions finish, the directors share the names of the hired actors and actresses and see if the assigned genres matched or not.
- Extra final activity (2): Once directors and actors are paired, they decide the main plot of their new movie.
What technology, media or props did you use? (internet resources, playmobiles, handouts, etc.)
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Handout with film synopsis and warm-up questions
- YouTube
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
- The selection of movies was appropriate, since they really enjoyed watching the trailers.
- They did the extra questions and they were very fast and creative inventing new plots for the movies.