Assignment: Getting Around

This is part of a series suggesting different ways to use Moviestorm in schools or other educational environments. They also make useful exercises for film-makers wanting to develop and practice different film-making techniques. Many more lesson plans and ideas, with free downloadable resources, can be found on the Moviestorm Web site.

Assignment: Getting Around
Create a short film in a foreign language, depicting a typical everyday situation that a tourist might encounter, such as booking a hotel room, ordering a meal, buying goods in a shop, asking for directions, going to a doctor, renting a car, reporting a crime and so on.

Suggested techniques

This video is a template that students can use to practice learning about restaurants. They add their own dialogue to order from a menu and ask the waiter questions.

Use photographic backdrops to make it look as if it’s set in another country.

Use subtitles so that other students can follow along in both languages.

For teachers: benefits to students

• This helps students develop language skills they would need if travelling.
• It can work even better if the project demonstrates knowledge of how things may be different in that country to what they are used to at home.

Suitability

• Ages 14+
• Suitable for groups
• Languages

Downloadable resources

Click the link to download a Moviestorm movie template.

cloud.moviestorm.co.uk/Lesson_Plans/Restaurant.zip

Installation instructions:

Download the file and extract the zip folder to this location:

Vista, Windows 7, Macs: [Username]/Moviestorm/Movies

Windows XP: C:/Documents and Settings/[Username]/Moviestorm/Movies