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Activity 8
Continue Activity 7 below
• With your teacher’s help, comment on which of the characters' gestures, T
actions and emotions from your short film are similar to those used by • If needed, help your students
TRACK 12
Mexicans, which are not, and why. Listen to the full example on Track 12. complete the chart. Guide rack 12
them through the chart
When I broke my
leg, I felt like Scarlett did. When I am sad, so that they are able to
I was sad seeing other kids my mom makes the same
playing while I was not faces as Scarlett’s Remember determine the main features
able to. mom does. Movies are a of their film: purpose,
audience, topic, characters,
way to convey
emotions,
et cetera.
For Our dubbing people belonging • Suggest that your students
experiences and
worldviews from
to different
8. Check the previous activities and complete the countries and watch the film more than once
following chart. cultures.
to complete the chart.
» Short film: Example: Scarlett • Have them express the
» Purpose: reasons why they chose
» Addressee:
» Topic: those answers as the
» Characters: purpose, audience, topic
9. With your teacher’s help, establish the number of scenes in your short and characters for their short
film. Choose one per team and describe in your notebook: session 5 film. Remember, explaining
• Places or settings where scenes take place. something to others is
• Character’s actions.
• Background sound effects or music it may have. one way of increasing
• Have a look at the picture on the right and how metacognitive awareness of
it's described below. one’s actions, thus leading
to improvements in the way
Character’s Background music learning is achieved.
Scene Setting actions of sound effects Scenes. Places. Characters’ actions Activity 9
Scarlett’s room in purple Scarlett sleeps Soothing music conveying
sadness and kindness.
1 and violet. Lighting and in her bed. • Encourage your students to
shadows convey sadness participate actively when
and suffering.
working in teams. Supervise
their interaction and boost
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members of the team; explain
that participation is of vital importance in the learning process.
• Make sure they are participating in English. Monitor that they avoid using their mother tongue.
• Tell your students about the subtle interrelation between music and images in films in order to make them
conscious of the importance of choosing the right music for a film.

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