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HOW TO WRITE FILM AND VIDEO ACTIVITIES Kieran Donaghy and Anna Whitcher TRAINING COURSE FOR ELT WRITERS SMASHWORDS EDITION License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Other titles by ELT Teacher 2 Writer Core modules How ELT Publishing Works How To Write For Digital Media How To Adapt Authentic Materials How To Write Intercultural Materials How To Choose And Use Images In Materials Writing How To Plan A Book How To Understand Permissions How To Write Audio Scripts How To Write Critical Thinking Activities How To Write Grammar Presentations And Practice How To Write Vocabulary Presentations And Practice How To Write Reading And Listening Activities How To Write Speaking Activities How To Write Writing Activities Market-specific modules How To Write Business English How To Write Content And Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) How To Write Corporate Training Materials How To Write English For Speakers Of Other Languages (ESOL) How To Write EAP Materials How To Write ESP Materials How To Write Exam Preparation Materials How To Write For Primary How To Write For Secondary How To Write Methodology Books And Teacher Handbooks How To Write Ministry-Compliant Material Component modules How To Write Grammar Summaries How To Write Graded Readers How To Write Teacher’s Books How To Write Tests How To Write Video Scripts And Activity Sheets How To Write Workbooks How To Write Worksheets Contact us How To Write Film And Video Activities By Kieran Donaghy and Anna Whitcher © 2015 ELT Teacher 2 Writer at Smashwords www.eltteacher2writer.co.uk We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce their material: National Geographic Learning Brookemead ELT Cambridge University Press Although every effort has been made to contact copyright holders before publication, this has not always been possible. If notified, ELT Teacher 2 Writer will endeavour to rectify any errors or omissions at the earliest opportunity. How To Write Film And Video Activities Contents About The Authors Introduction Guidance on sourcing non-ELT-specific videos Ways of exploiting video Glossary Commentaries on tasks About The Authors Kieran Donaghy I’m a teacher, trainer and writer. I’ve taught in the UK, Italy, Portugal and Spain, and am currently teaching at UAB Idiomes Barcelona, part of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I’ve got Master's degrees in ELT, and Business Communication. I have a special interest in the use of film in the classroom and write extensively about film and education. I’m the co-author of Films in Health Sciences Education and my methodology book on film in language teaching Film in Action was published by Delta Publishing in April 2015. My website on the use of film has won a number of prizes. In 2013 it won a British Council ELTons Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources, and – the most prestigious European media in education prize – the MEDEA Award. In 2014 it won an English-Speaking Union Award. I’m also the founder of the only conference exclusively on the use of images in language teaching, The Image Conference. Anna Whitcher I’m an editor, writer and producer of ELT materials and have a strong interest in film and its role in the language classroom. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and have a Master’s in English Composition. I’ve taught ESL/EFL and Spanish to teenagers and adults in the US and in Europe. I’m co-author and film producer of Brookemead ELT's Smart English A2 with Rebecca Robb Benne, which was nominated for an ELTons award for innovation in 2013, and have most recently produced over 140 short films for the global component of a new secondary course for Cambridge University Press. I’ve lived in the UK, Spain and Latvia and currently reside in my native San Francisco. Kieran Donaghy and I share a love of film and language teaching and are now producing short films to provoke conversation about the role of the image in today's world. This is our first publication together. Task 1 Before you start this module, we suggest you do this brief task to get you thinking about video and what role it has played so far in your teaching and how you approach it. 1 Think about types of activities used with video in course books and on ELT blogs and websites. Brainstorm a list of activities. 2 Take a course book you know quite well. Look at the video section and think about the following questions: - What is it being used for? - What task types can you find? - Have you used them? What have you found effective? Not effective? - Where does it appear in the unit? - How much space is dedicated to it? You can find a commentary on this and other tasks in this module here.