Movie Talk & Clip Chat

Compelling input for all students

NILA, October 2019

Theresa Jensen, M.S., NBCT

IB Spanish, Spanish 3

Millard North

High School

tmjensen@

mpsomaha.org

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Why should I do a Movie Talk or a Clip Chat?

• motivating, interesting comprehensible input

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• Students cannot acquire language they are not both exposed to and actively focusing on

Movie Talk

Clip Chat

Is clip chat/movie talk for my students?

Are my students novice to intermediate?

Are my students advanced?

YES

NO

YES

Probably not. You may add some input to engage them or clarify, but movie talk was designed for novice to intermediate learners.

YES! Clip Chat/Movie Talk is perfect for your students!

• Select a short video or clip of movie (1-5 min.)

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• Turn the sound off

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• Pause every 10 seconds or so (more or less)

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• YOU (teacher) describe the scene, what is happening in the TL

A note from Ashley Hastings, inventor of Movie Talk

What is a Movie Talk vs. a Clip chat?

MOVIE TALK

• Narrating to provide input
• Non-targeted input
• Used to provide comprehensible input with a motivating story to engage learners and images to help keep it comprehensible

CLIP CHAT

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• circling to provide repetitions of structures
• Selecting a movie clip whose theme goes with a unit of study
• Pause to ask questions in order to provide more repetitions of Target structures

Clip chat: when you pause, ask students…

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• narrate
• Circle (Clip

Chat only)

• personalized

questions &

answers (PQA)

(Clip chat only)

Teach culture

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• Narrate
• Circle (Clip Chat

only)

• personalized

questions &

answers (PQA)

(Clip Chat only)

Kindergarten High school

• Narrate
• Circle
• PQA

Let’s try it!

Now you find a video clip you can use in your class!

More resources:

HOW TO:

The Comprehensible Classroom: Movie Talk

Chris Stolz’s step by step movie talk

How-to Movie Talk: Steps, tips, resources

La Maestra Loca Annabelle Allen

Sarah Breckley doing Movie Talk (Wisconsin TOY

RESOURCES:

Several movie talk lessons (by Williamson, author of #navidadmadness)

Several movie talk lessons by Bryan Handel, TPRS teacher

Database of clips for Movie Talk on Pinterest

Movie Talk Database

Simon’s Cat - clips rich with visual text but no language - amusing and meant to narrate!

Jensen’s resources:

Jensen movie talks

“Blind” movie talk: Amnesia

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