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Practice 4 A picture is worth a thousand words

Family and community environment
A Picture Is Practice 4 Social language practice: Produce dialogues and interventions for a silent short film.
Worth a In this practice, you will dub a short film.

Thousand Warm-up stage
Words 1. Look at the following images from the short film Scarlett and answer

the questions below in your notebook.
Activity 1

• Ask your students questions
such as: What problem does
the girl have? How is the girl
in the pictures different from Things I know. Planning our product
other children? What do you
think the short film will be
about? This will allow you to
activate previous knowledge
and to introduce your theme.
• Have students take turns
speaking in order to organize Source: www.scarlettcontraelcancer.com
their participation. session 1 • What is the title of short film? Remember
Until the end
• In order to facilitate the • What do you think the short film will be about? of the 1920s,
• Why do you think the girl is sad?
all movies used
discussion, give your own • Where is the girl going? Silence Is to be silent. As
Silence Is
G den
answers to motivate your 2. Look at this poster and discuss the G den synchronized
they had neither
students and show them how possible meanings of this statement dialogue, silent
sound nor spoken
to speak about the topic. with your partner. Do you agree that on nonverbal
movies depended
silence is golden?
language, text,
• If your students are too shy to charts and music.
speak, give them the possible
answers. You can get them
from the Internet before 62 Studentʼs Book / Practice 4
giving your class.
• Take some time to go over the questions and make sure your students understand them.
• While the answers may vary in the way they are given, students should point out that the name of the girl
is Scarlett and that the issue being dealt with is the experience of having lost a leg, which could be the
reason for her sadness, and that she is going home.
Activity 2

• Have your students exchange opinions about the subject of silence and its worth (Is it really golden?).
• Offer them models of how to express an opinion about it, for example: In my opinion, silence is golden,
depending on the film.
• If your students are unclear about what silence is golden means, just comment that golden refers to
something very valuable (because gold is considered valuable).
• Ask your students if they like silent films and why or why not.
• You can also ask when your students think silence is appropriate, with reference to movies.
• Take them through the Remember section and help your students make the links between this section
and the task they have to accomplish by the end of this practice.

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