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MovieTalk*

Ageless, Timeless, Priceless

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Allison Litten

Marion Cross School, Norwich, VT

*VideoChat/ClipChat

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@madamelitten

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WHO AM I?

• Year 20 teaching
• Year 17 at MCS

• Grades: K, 1, 2, 4, 6
• K-4: 90 minutes/week
• 5-6: 180 minutes/week

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• Dog mom, vegan, obstacle course runner

• This presentation (my FAVORITE) has traveled around the world.

What is MovieTalk?

• Created by Ashley Hastings, MT allows for a great deal of input for students. (non-targeted)

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• Visuals help anchor the language, and humor or suspense keep your students engaged.

• All you need is a way to project a video in your classroom.

• MT is low-prep, high input, captivating, and produces excellent language.

• Establish student norms prior to watching.

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Allison’s favorite clips

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Allison’s Resource Folder

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General Video Database

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Martina Bex’s Video Database

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-The Black Hole

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-Birdbox Studios

-Simon’s Cat

-(Mr. Bean)

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Monty the penguin!!

Demo: SC The Box

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3 purposes

1-introduce new vocabulary

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3-connect to other things

2-practice old vocabulary

• things you’re studying in class (Bonhommes de neige)

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• personalization (Messi ads)

• culture/history

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Cultural/Historical Possibilities

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French FB post

Spanish FB post

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Brain Break!

Air Writing

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STEPS

• Choose your video
• Know your audience
• Little to no dialogue
• Repetitive theme is helpful
• 5 minute clip = 25+ minutes of discussion

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• Prepare
• Preview video several times
• Choose important structures/words to pre-teach (I’d say no more than 6 new words/phrases)
• If you are untargeted, just do what you want!
• Find appropriate moments to pause, ask questions (both personalized & “what’s going on” ?s)
• Take screen shots

• “Do It”

• Follow up activities

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Four possible approaches

(out of a gazillion)

• Show screen shots before watching the video, discuss what’s happening
• Ask questions to determine plot
• Story-ask to create new ideas/predict

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• Watch video, stopping and asking questions, watch a second time with no pauses

• Watch entire video all the way through, go back and watch again, ask questions

• Give reading beforehand, then watch

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Importance of Images

• Deliberate use of images

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• Draws on prior knowledge/vocab

• Puts words in context

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• Best way to introduce vocab (IMHO)

• The weirder, the better!

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I Picture Talk

my vocab!

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Pocoyo-La Course

“Themes and Vocabulary List” blog post

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SNOWMEN!!

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Brain Break!

Guess the number between 0 and 100

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Follow-Up Activities

• True/false

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• Associate sentence to image

• Put events in order

• Partner retell-give students set amount of time to retell video to a partner

• Blind retell
• Project images from the video
• Half of the students (A) face screen with images
• Half of the students (B) face A students, away from screen
• Student B tries to retell the story with A prompting when needed

• Students write own questions (can turn this into a quiz)

• Pictionary

• Tense review-tell story in past

• Textivate-reading practice

• Turn “plot” of video into a reading

• Kahoot, Quizlet, Gimkit

• Make an embedded reading

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Partnered Activities

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French file

Spanish file!

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Follow-Up Activities-assessments

• Up/Down (eyes closed)

• socrative.com (Tutorial video)

• HW-tell the video to someone at home/Google Voice message

• Students record themselves, retelling the video
• from memory or with images as prompts

• edpuzzle.com put questions, comments, and audio into the video
• Click here to use my referral code!

• Running dictation

• Gallery Walk
• post images from video
• students conduct a gallery walk, writing comments for each picture

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Classes...

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1st grade, December 2018

The Box, prep begins at 10:00-ish

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and more classes...

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Kindergarten, Dec. 2018

6th grade,

(3:35-review w/ screenshots)

3:07-Stall time!!

6:23-BB

9:27-CC, 2nd or 3rd time

The whole thing is a CC!!

(snowmen)

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and more classes!

Same class, two different cameras

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(5th grade, 2016)

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0-6 minutes: pictionary

6-10:45-new vocab

10:45-13:30-old vocab

13:30-14:15-TPR

14:15-15:50-new vocab

15:50-33:00-CC activity

33-35:30-watch video with no stops

35:30-end-follow up activities​

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Allison’s class YouTube playlist

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credits

• Eric Herman
• Martina Bex
• Sabrina Janczak
• Annabelle Williamson
• Tom Harkins
• Chris Stolz
• The MoreTPRS Listserv
• The iFLT/NTPRS/CI Teaching FB group
• The French and Spanish in the US Teachers FB Groups

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Have fun!

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allison.litten@marioncross.org

www.mcsfrench.org (school)

www.cicanteach.com (blog)

@madamelitten

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Demo: The Box

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First Grade

• sits
• licks
• box
• chases
• paw
• tail
• jumps
• eats
• breaks
• falls
• prepositions

STRUCTURES

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Blind Retell

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