This school year 2014-15, we made a project work in Practical English, an optional subject in 2nd
“Bachillerat”, the last year of Post-Compulsory Secondary Education.
First, the students read a graded reader “Fankestein” by Mary Shelley. We
chose the reader from Burlington Books,
Activity Series because there, we could
find a lot of activities to work on each of the chapters and students could
also listen to the audios and read some literature articles at home by clicking
on this link:
Next, they watched the film Mary Shelley´s Frankestein
, directed by Kenneth Branagh.
If you like, you can read some more information about
the film in this Wikipedia website:
Then, they read the film script which we could find
here:
Afterwards, they wrote their own script in order to
film their own movie adapted from the
original one. Once they finished writing their script, they rehearsed and filmed the
scenes.
Finally they turned their own videos into a short movie with Windows Movie Maker.
The most important is that they enjoyed very much the activity
they were doing and at the same time they were learning English in an easy way.
They practised the four skills and had lots of fun.
At the end of the School Year
they wrote an article about this project for the High School Magazine. Here is the article where you can
read about their experience:
FILMING A NEW PROJECT
This year in our high school Manuel Sanchis Guarner,
we made a project related to horror films. The students of practical English of
2nd BAT found this project very interesting in order to make a funny, didactic
and different activity.
After reading the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
and watching the film directed by Kenneth Branagh we decided to participate in
the project filming different scenes from the film. At first, we thought it was
a challenge, but little by little we
achieved to make the project willingly
and enthusiastically.
We are very proud of the result and we realized that
we had real actors among us. Then, all the time we spent working in this
project was worthwhile.
As a conclusion, this has been one of the best
projects that we have ever made.
Practical English, 2nd BAT school year 2014-2015.
