Um tema que sempre costuma
atrair a atenção de alunos e professores é o uso de filmes em sala de aula. Ao
propor atividades com cenas de filmes, os professores podem tornar suas aulas
mais dinâmicas e interessantes, além de contribuir para que os alunos tenham
mais acesso a linguagem autêntica. Que tal aproveitar as férias para colocar o
cinema em dia e pensar em novas atividades para suas aulas? Para ajudar, seguem
três sugestões.
Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Casamento Grego)
Suggested objectives / topics: Discuss different cultures, immigration,
social problems
Suggested levels: Upper-Intermediate on
Scenes: 1-2 (from 1min25 to 6min36)
Before you watch, discuss these questions with a
partner:
ü Have you ever moved to a different
country? How was the experience? Do you know anyone who has moved to another
country? How was their experience?
ü Would you like to move to another
country? Why (not)?
ü Do you think people should be
allowed to immigrate to any country they wanted without restrictions? Why
(not)?
Answer the questions while you watch the scenes:
1 – Toula’s
family emigrated from Greece to Chicago, the USA. Was it easy for Toula to
adapt herself to her new life? Why (not)?
2 – How
does her father feel about being Greek? How can you prove that with examples
from the film?
3 – Toula
asked her mother why she had to go to Greek school. What did her mother reply?
4 – How
does Toula feel about her family and her own life? Why do you think that?
Now, discuss these questions in groups:
ü How are the experiences of visiting
another country and immigrating to another country similar or different?
ü If you had to immigrate now, what
would concern you most? Language? Work? Why?
ü How different do you think the
concerns about immigration are from a 10-year-old child, a teenager, an adult
and an old person?
ü Do you think immigration is a social
problem? Why?
Movie: Bridget Jones’s Diary (O Diário de Bridget Jones)
Suggested objectives / topics: Discuss embarrassing situations /
Focus on British pronunciation
Suggested levels: Intermediate on
Scene: 13 (from 36min50 to 40min15)
Before you watch, match these words with their
meaning:
a) tart ( ) a priest in the Church of England
b) vicar ( ) a small problem or fault that prevents
something from being successful or working as well as it should
c) chap ( ) a woman who intentionally wears the type
of clothes and make-up that attract sexual attention
d) glitch ( ) very strange and unusual
e) bizarre ( ) a man
Answer the questions as you watch a scene:
1 – How was
Bridget Jones dressed up?
2 – Why was
she dressed up like that?
3 – Why did
she get embarrassed?
4 – Was she
the only person wearing a costume? How many others were there?
Now, discuss these questions with a partner:
- Have you
ever faced an embarrassing situation? How was that?
- How did
you deal with this situation?
- What
embarrassing situations can happen at work? At school? At a social environment?
Movie: Juno
Suggested levels: Intermediate on
Scene: 2-3 (from 16min32 to 26min10)
Suggested objectives / topics: Discuss teenage pregnancy, abortion / Debate / 2nd Conditional
Before you watch, discuss these questions with a partner:
- What
would you do if you (or your girlfriend) got pregnant when you were 16?
- Do you
know anyone who had a baby when they were teenagers? How did it change their
lives?
Watch the scene and answer these questions:
1 – What
was Juno’s first decision when she discovered she was pregnant?
2 – Why do
you think she changed her mind?
3 – What
did her friend suggest she should do?
4 – What
was Juno’s parents’ reaction when she told them she was pregnant?
Now, discuss these questions in groups:
ü What do you think parents should do
when their teenage daughter gets pregnant? And if they are the boy’s parents?
Should their attitudes be different?
ü Do you consider giving the baby for
adoption a good option when you don’t have conditions to raise him/her?
ü What about abortion? Are you for or
against it? In which situations?
