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Cambridge Handbooks for LanguageTeachersThis is a series of practical guides for teachers of English and otherlanguages. Illustrative examples are usually drawn from the field ofEnglish as a foreign or second language, but the ideas and techniquesdescribed can equally well be used in the teaching of any language.

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Classroom

Using Authentic Video in the Language

Jane Sherman

Consultant and editor: Penny Ur






C A M B R I D G E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

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Contents

Thanks and acknowledgements x

Introduction 1

Why use authentic video? 1What you need 3Ways of using video 6How to use this book 7General guidelines for video activities 9

Part A

I Video drama

Introduction 12

1 Full-length feature films 18

Doing a film 18The film and the book 27

2 Other video drama 35

Drama series 35Sitcoms 38Soap operas 42

3 Short dramatic sequences 46

Drama clips 46Comedy sketches 55

II Non-fiction video

Introduction 59






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Contents

1 Programmes about real life 62

Documentaries and educational films 62The TV news (including weather, national events, speeches) 68Interviews and talk shows 82Sports programmes 90Game shows 96

2 Short sequences and promotions 99

Non-fiction clips 99TV commercials 105

Part B

Activities with authentic video

1 Video comprehension 118

2 Activities 123

Accents 123Act along 123Ad angles 124Ad language 125Adopt a character 125Advice 126Answers 127Awkward questions 128Before and after 129Best image 130Best scene 131Body language 131Body parts 132Book and film 132Case study 134Casting couch 1 134Casting couch 2 135Celebrity interview 137Changes 138Character network 139Chases 141Choose your words 142Climax 143






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Comment 145Commentary/Copywriter 145Completions 146Cross-cutting 147Culture 148Daily life 149Decisions 151Describe an ad 152Describing real interaction 154Describing speech style 155Diary 156Dossier 157Dress 158Effects 158Enigmas 159Experts 160Eye on the object 161Famous films 161Famous people 162Fashion parade 163Favourite scene 164Feeling flow 165Fights 167Film presentation 168Floor 169Fly on the wall 170Follow the news 171Getting things done 172Gossip 173Grading 173Heard and seen 175Holophrases 176How it’s done 177I spy 177Interactive language 178Interview 180Interview article 181Invisible music 184Issues 184Jumbled statements 185Labelling and linking 186Lead-in 187Learning English with films 189






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Letters to the editor 190Lifestyle 192Lipreading and mindreading 192Long and short 193Loves and hates 194Make a case 195Make a case for character 195Maps and journeys 196Matching 196Misapprehensions 198Missing character 198Missing scene 199News leads 199News script 200New story 202One-liner 203Organization man 204Oscar 205Other people’s shoes 206Over the top 207Panning 207Parallels 208Pick of the news 209Picture it 209Place and period 211Plan a chase 212Plot idea 1 213Plot idea 2 216Preview 217Problem 217Programme proposal 220Puff 220Purrs and slurs 221Puzzle 221Question types 222Questions 223Quotes 224Quoting and illustrating 224Racing 225Reaction shots 226Reading aloud 228Rhetoric 229Rules 230






Runabout 232Scenario 232Schema 233Script 234Scriptwriter 236Seen it before 237Sequel and prequel 238Set the scene 238Silly soaps 239Situation report 240Soap chronicles 241Soap write-out 242Speculations 242Speech acts 244Sports highlights 246Sports quiz 246Stage directions 247Stand by it 248Structures 249Subtitles 1 249Subtitles 2 250Summary 250Talk show 251Telephone conversations 253Tenses 253Themes 254Tone up 255Transcript 256Trigger 257Turning points 257Twin texts 259Viewshare 260Voice 1 261Voice 2 262Voxpop 262Walkthrough 263Weather words 263What next? 265What’s going on? 266What weather where 267Why and How? 268Wordhunt 268Writing the book 270Your movie 270

3 Glossary 272

Index 275ix

Contents






Thanks and acknowledgements

My thanks to:Sally McLaren for the description of the opening scene from Night ofthe Living Dead in the activity Favourite scene.

Ughetta Palmieri, Silva Marcoccio and Silvia Frigo for the Chirp’sGazette story in the activity News story.

The authors and publishers are grateful to the authors, publishers andothers who have given permission for the use of copyright materialidentified in the text. It has not been possible to identify the sources ofall the material used and in such cases the publishers would welcomeinformation from copyright owners.

P48 Excerpt from What’s eating Gilbert Grape © VCP Paramount; p58 Smoky Bacon IceCream sketch from The Two Ronnies, © Ronnie Barker; p98 Countdown numbers game,reproduced with permission of Yorkshire Television Limited: p110 Woolworths slogan,reproduced with permission of Woolworths plc; p114 Description of advertisement forBiactol, ©The Procter and Gamble Company, Used by permission; p115 Description ofadvertisement for Ariel, ©The Procter and Gamble Company, Used by permission; p115Extract from CIC Video’s TV advertisement ‘Horse’, reproduced by permission ofGordon Graham and Vince Squibb at Lowe and Partners; p138 Extract from AccidentalHero by Leonore Fleischer (Penguin, 1993) based on a screenplay by David WebbPeoples, Copyright © Columbia Pictures Inc, 1992; p179 Transcript of dialogue fromHome and Away reproduced by permission of Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited; p183Adapted from ‘When Helen freezes over’ from Radio Times 20–26 May 2000; p191Extracts from letters to the editor from Marie Little, Norma E W Cannon and RossLaidlaw, from Radio Times, 20–26 May 2000; p197 Script extract from BBCdocumentary ‘Predators’; p200 Extract from ‘The Day Today’, reproduced withpermission of Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci; p218 Programme previews fromRadio Times 20–26 May 2000; p241 Programme billing for rugby league from RadioTimes 28 April–4 May

Photographs on p135: (TL) © Ed Kashi/CORBIS, photograph of Steve Jobs; (TR)© 2001–2002 Getty Images Inc., photograph of US judge by David Young-Wolff; (BL)© Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, photograph of Claudius at RSC 1997 by MalcolmDavis; (BR) © The Ecumenical Monastic Community of St Benedict, California,photograph of Benedictine monk.

Dedication

To Ann and Sam






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