Natalia López

Methods II
Plan N° 3
Level : Intermediate
Number of students: 30
Age: 15
Book: Opportunities ‘Intermediate’ (Longman)
Unit 6 ‘Films’
Assumed knowledge: Simple past, past continuous, present perfect, present simple,
present continuous, kinds of films, travel, extreme sports, story genres,
Aims: By the end of the lesson are going to be able to give their opinions about films
- Topic Aims: talking about films, fitness and exercise.
- Grammar Aims: The use of the simple past to express opinions about films
- Communication Aims: sharing opinion about films.
- Vocabulary Aims: to learn vocabulary related to different kinds of films.
- Function Aims: Giving opinion about films
- Skill Aims: learners speak about films

Warm-up
The teacher is going to greet her students.
And after that they will play hangman so as to get the word F I L MS

Once they get to the word the teacher will tell her students that today they are going to
deal with ‘films’. After that, she will ask them to brainstorm about the different kinds of
films they remember from unit 2. She will write them on the bb and add more kinds
that were not presented in unit 2 (In case students can’t get the meaning of the new
ones the teacher will mime them and explain them)

Revision
Once she writes them on the bb, she will tell her students that they are going to watch
a video that contains previews of famous films and to make a list with the different
kinds of films that appear in the video.
Once they all have their own lists they will check it all together.

Teaching moment

Presentation
Students are will be asked to look at the cinema information brochure that is in the
book and to listen to a recorded message.

Global task
Students listen to the recorded message and tell the class what 3 films are
mentioned
Answers:
First: Notting Hill
Second: The Mummy
Thirds: Mulan

Specific task
Students listen to the recorded message and complete the brochure
Once they check the brochure the teacher will tell her students that they are going to
watch a short preview of Notting hill, just for fun
 After that she will ask them to provide adjectives that may describe the film (adjectives
they know)
Good, exciting, boring, etc (so as to give their opinions just through adjectives)

When they are finished she will tell her students to listen to a conversation between
Christine and Malcolm talking about the film Notting Hill.

Global task

Students listen to the dialogue and tell if both of them enjoyed the film or not.

Specific task

Students listen to the dialogue again and complete the ‘Function file’ with some words given.

Amazing, loved, true, brilliant, the point, fantastic, so, funny, part,
scene, silly, special,
favourite, Clever, thought, quite.

Isolation of the teaching point

Once the file is checked the teacher will ask them to underline from there the
expression that both speakers used and ask them what tense is used to express
opinions about films? Once the students say ‘the simple past she ask them to classify
them into positive and negative opinions
The teacher elicits the meaning of the different expressions. She will also provide with
examples and ask students for them.
After that, students will pay attention to some words ‘modifiers’ that go together with
adjectives and the teacher will ask them which of the followings emphasise adjectives
and which reduce their effect?
Not very, quite, very, a bit, really, incredibly, rather

Practice
They will use words from the Function File ‘Expressing opinions about films’ and some
modifiers to write 5 opinions about films and film stars. Once that is done they will
work in pairs and share their opinions about a film. Students will look for differences in
their opinions (As they will discuss them in pairs it would be good that both students
discuss about a film they both had seen)

In the book students are asked to choose a film they have seen recently and to use the
following question cues to write notes.

What film/seen recently?Film:

‘Notting Hill’ (a romantic comedy)
What /about? A film star who meets a shy
Englishman
Who/in it? Julia Roberts – brilliant, Hugh Grant – not
very good, Rhys Ifans – very funny
What/you think of it ? situation – funny,
dialogues – excellent, music- very good
What/not so good? Plot- bit weak; Hugh Grant
What/the best scene? Dinner scene
In pairs, students will discuss their films (it would be good to ask them to discuss about
a film they both had seen). They will use the questions cues and their notes. They will
look for coincides in their opinions.

Round-off
The class is divided into two groups, one member of one group will come to the bb
and will get a card with a kind of movie, he will have to dramatise the kind of movie so
that his team can guess what kind of film he is miming, if they guess they get a point.
The team that gets more points is the winner

Homework

Students choose a film and write a short paragraph about it. On the following class they
will read it aloud (as they are too many the T will choose who, or may assign some
students per class) without saying the title of the film so that their classmates can
guess what film he is talking about.