3 atividades com filmes

Atividades de inglês
Um tema que sempre costuma atrair a atenção de alunos e professores é o uso de filmes em sala de aula. Ao propor atividades com cenas de filmes, os professores podem tornar suas aulas mais dinâmicas e interessantes, além de contribuir para que os alunos tenham mais acesso a linguagem autêntica. Que tal aproveitar as férias para colocar o cinema em dia e pensar em novas atividades para suas aulas? Para ajudar, seguem três sugestões.


Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Casamento Grego)

• Have you ever moved to a different country? How was the experience? Do you know anyone who has moved to another country? How was their experience?
• Would you like to move to another country? Why (not)?
• Do you think people should be allowed to immigrate to any country they wanted without restrictions? Why (not)?

1. Toula’s family emigrated from Greece to Chicago, the USA. Was it easy for Toula to adapt herself to her new life? Why (not)?
2. How does her father feel about being Greek? How can you prove that with examples from the film?
3. Toula asked her mother why she had to go to Greek school. What did her mother reply?
4. How does Toula feel about her family and her own life? Why do you think that?

Now, discuss these questions in groups:

• How are the experiences of visiting another country and immigrating to another country similar or different?
• If you had to immigrate now, what would concern you most? Language? Work? Why?
• How different do you think the concerns about immigration are from a 10-year-old child, a teenager, an adult and an old person?
• Do you think immigration is a social problem? Why?

Movie: Bridget Jones’s Diary (O Diário de Bridget Jones)

Before you watch, match these words with their meaning:
a) tart                             (    ) a priest in the Church of England

1. How was Bridget Jones dressed up?
2. Why was she dressed up like that?
3. Why did she get embarrassed?
4. Was she the only person wearing a costume? How many others were there?

• Have you ever faced an embarrassing situation? How was that?
• How did you deal with this situation?
• What embarrassing situations can happen at work? At school? At a social environment?

Movie: Juno
Suggested objectives / topics: Discuss teenage pregnancy, abortion / Debate / 2nd Conditional
Suggested levels: Intermediate on
Scene: 2-3 (from 16min32 to 26min10)

• What would you do if you (or your girlfriend) got pregnant when you were 16?
• Do you know anyone who had a baby when they were teenagers? How did it change their lives?

1. What was Juno’s first decision when she discovered she was pregnant?
2. Why do you think she changed her mind?
3. What did her friend suggest she should do?
4. What was Juno’s parents’ reaction when she told them she was pregnant?

• What do you think parents should do when their teenage daughter gets pregnant? And if they are the boy’s parents? Should their attitudes be different?
• Do you consider giving the baby for adoption a good option when you don’t have conditions to raise him/her?
• What about abortion? Are you for or against it? In which situations?