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Small movie clips
Use small movie clips from You Tube, and invite students to notice specific aspect of the clip. For example, the type of motion or sound in the clip, the scenario of the clip. Use just short clips at the beginning. Use structures to explain what students notice for lower level classes.

Example one: Pan's Labyrinth Opening Credits


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 Example Two: Catch Me If You Can

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Example Three - Pan's Labyrinth

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Example Four: Johnny Stecchino


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Example Five: Chocolat


See the opening...imagine the end
Use a clip of very famous movies in your language. Show the opening titles of the movie or opening scene. Ask students to imagine and tell the story of how the movie may end and why.
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Music/Space/Movement/Relations/...lists
Ask students to focus on one or two elements of a movie clip. Each student pays attention to the assigned elements. Then show the clip and ask students to notice what they were assigned to. After, each student explains what they noticed. Each student will give a different aspect that the director used in the movie to create and tell the story.
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Fun dubbing
Show a popular clip of a movie in the language or in English. Ask students to mute the clip and take different parts to dub the actors, including music and sound effect. Then students show the clip with their own added texts and subtexts.