Heart

Mind

Memory

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave

footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the

same.”

Heart

Mind

Memory

Be the teacher they will never

forget..!!

It’s all in your story.

Your story is your map of

the world

“The answer lies between the intersection of

image and text”

Nick Sousanis

The Wimpy kid movie-clip

Ten more ideas for movie clips and

mindmaps

Ten more ideas for movie clips and

mindmaps

Ten more ideas for movie clips and

mindmaps

Ten more ideas for movie clips and

mindmaps

Title

Movie clip

BrainstormCreate

Share

1

1) Give students the title of a movie clip they are about to watch.

Handout blank mind map templates that you have prepared, either on hard copy or digitally.

Have them brainstorm in groups or pairs.

Tell students to imagine what the movie will be about and add words and images to their map to represent the storylines they predict.

Then watch the movies as a whole class.

Ask students if the real movie was very different from their stories.

Watch again and ask students to map the similarities and differences on a new mindmap.

Now put students into pairs from different groups. They must compare and contrast their maps and tell each other about the similarities and

differences.

Story

fantasy

Movie Topic

Keywords

2

2) Follow-up from idea one or stand-alone activity.

As a follow –up students write the story of their imaginary movie or even create their

own movies using digital technology.

As a stand-alone activity, you can give students a topic based on a theme you have in your course book. Give them key words in mind map form for revision and tell them to put these words into a topic-based story or

their own movie.

Mindmap

Present

Teams Guessing

games Yes/no

3

3) Follow-up to idea two or else as a stand-alone activity.

Students create their stories or movies at home.

Then they create mind maps of their movies for class. In class each student or pair/group presents the mind maps to the class.

Divide the class into teams.

The class have to guess what the story or movie is about based on the map, asking only yes/no questions.

The map should be large enough for everyone to see or else on an o overhead projecter/or in digital format.

Read

Listen

Map Storytelling

DesignDisplay

4

4) Alternative follow-up to three or stand-alone activity

Students create movies. They write the story of the movie at home. Next day they read out their stories to the class. In this case there are

no visual aids, so it’s essentially a listening activity.

Students listen and map the story.

Have map templates handy so as not to waste time. They just add keywords to their maps.

Afterwards get students to retell the stories to each other and compare with the original. Then they can watch the short movie.

Finally, they can embellish/design their maps with images and display around the class, keep in special project folders or display online

through blogs etc.

Focus

Parts

Characters Parts of speech feelings/mood

appearance

5

6) Alternatives to idea five.

Instead of letting student just map anything they want, ask them to focus on particular parts of the story.

For example:

Ask them to mind map the characters as they imagine their characteristics and appearance.

Ask them to mind map only nouns, verbs, events.

Alternative, divide them into teams. Each team has a separate focus, some map the events, others the ideas, other the verbs, others

different parts or speech, others map the feelings or mood.

Group oneTranscript

No video

Group twoImages, no soundvisual plots, words

6

7) Oral storytelling & mixed media.

Sample lesson plan from my website and the movie

“My Left Foot”

More from the Irish Film Society

Grammar and tenses

Movie-clip

Lexical-grammatical

maps

7

8) Movie-grammar maps.

Imagine a Mr. Bean movie clip. Mr. Beam always does ridiculous things.

Example of grammar to practice: should/shouldn’t have

Hand out mind map templates with lexical branches (and/or images) and should/shouldn’t along the branches.

Students watch the movie and write down what Mr. Bean should/shouldn’t have done.

What others ideas can you come up with?

Vocabulary

Brainstorm

Watch & recognise

8

8) Jumbled words

Give students sets of jumbled words in groups.

Tell them to arrange the words onto a mind map and then act out their stories for the

class.

Then show everyone the real movie –clip and tell them to map the true story

Impressions

feelings

Sharing /chatting

9

9) Impressions and feelings

Find an emotive movie clip and let the class watch it.

Also hand out simple mindmap templates and tell them to jot down their feelings onto branches which represent scenes in the

movie..

(option)Roleplay that they are at the cinema with

friends or date & they chat about the movie after, describing their impressions.

Example from Film English

Adjectives

Scenes

reviews

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10) Adjectives

Students watch movie clip and write down adjectives to describe different parts of the

movie scenes as depicted on mind map branches.

After put them into groups and tell them to put all of their adjectives together.

Now they can direct their own movies scenes using these adjectives to make up a story.

Poetry ideas

Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition

Movement, Rhyme & Rhythm

Chuck Sandy

Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition

I sat there with SallyWe sat there, we two

and I said “ how I wish we had something to do

Too wet to go out, to cold to play ball

so we sat in the house, we did nothing at all

Poetry, rhyme, imagery, story, repetition

“Say! In the dark? Here in the dark! Would you, could you, in the dark?” ― Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham“I do not like green eggs and

ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.” 

“Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.” 

poetry

link Seussville

10 more ways to use poetry

Link to my article on poetry

Class poetry groups online & in social networks

Acrostic poetry

Grammar through poetry

Limerick poetry

Classic literature and poetry

Word-powered

Picture poems

Pattern poems

Rap poems

10 more ways to use poetry

Link to my article on poetry

Class poetry groups online & in social networks

Acrostic poetry

Grammar through poetry

Limerick poetry

Classic literature and poetry

Word-powered

Picture poems

Pattern poems

Rap poemsPoster

lin k

10 more ways to use poetry

Link to my article on poetry

Class poetry groups online & in social networks

Acrostic poetry

Grammar through poetry

Limerick poetry

Classic literature and poetry

Word-powered

Picture poems

Pattern poems

Rap poemsPoster

lin k

Order of adjectives:

OpinionSize

ShapeAge

ColourNationality

Material

The cute, small, chubby, ancient, red-haired, Irish

leprachaun.

10 more ways to use poetry

Link to my article on poetry

Class poetry groups online & in social networks

Acrostic poetry

Grammar through poetry

Limerick poetry

Classic literature and poetry

Word-powered

Picture poems

Pattern poems

Rap poems

Memory Movies

10 more ways to use poetry

Link to my article on poetry

Class poetry groups online & in social networks

Acrostic poetry

Grammar through poetry

Limerick poetry

Classic literature and poetry

Word-powered

Picture poems

Pattern poems

Rap poems

Word play,

songs, Movies,

numbers, shapes

Mnenmonic peg system

Watch this space for my future articles on this topic

10 more ways to use poetry

Link to my article on poetry

Class poetry groups online & in social networks

Acrostic poetry

Grammar through poetry

Limerick poetry

Classic literature and poetry

Word-powered

Picture poems

Pattern poems

Rap poems

Comics!!

In education

Social and emotional

10 more ways to use poetry

Link to my article on poetry

Class poetry groups online & in social networks

Acrostic poetry

Grammar through poetry

Limerick poetry

Classic literature and poetry

Word-powered

Picture poems

Pattern poems

Rap poems

Comics!!

In education

Social and emotional

10 more ways to use poetry

Link to my article on poetry

Class poetry groups online & in social networks

Acrostic poetry

Grammar through poetry

Limerick poetry

Classic literature and poetry

Word-powered

Picture poems

Pattern poems

Rap poems

Comics!!

In education

Social and emotional

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