There is a thread on Movie Talk over on the forum some of which I moved over here. There are some very valuable MT links in this discussion:
Chris S. –
Yesterday basically on a whim I movietalked this: youtube.com/watch?v=nfYPktsd9bs
It’s 3:23 long, it’s called “Chicken or the Egg,” has sound and music (but no talking, yay!) and tells a complete story. You could use any of the following: has, wants, likes, falls in love with, decides, wakes up, goes to bed, sees, goes, eggs, chicken, pig etc. Also #s, colours, day, night, etc.
It’s great. I thought it would take 20 min but it took an hour! I circled in the present tense and when we finished, I asked t/f and one-word answers in past tense. Today I did dictado with 10 or so sentences from the film. My beginners at this point have had about 75 hours of CI and this one worked perfectly, and would also work well for more advanced kids.
Movietalk ROCKS. What an amazing, fun tool.
When anything appears or happens on screen, I pause the film, and ask a question. Like evry 20-30 sec or so. In this film, I fiirst asked “what’s his name?” when the pig appears. Then I asked, “what is he eating/wearing.” Etc. What does he see? Who is he looking at? What colour is his _____? What’s HER name? What’s she like? I circle each sentence I say a bit– I want them to understand but I do not want to beat it to death cos it does need some narrative momentum.
Sometimes I just say something– “the pig is wearing a black jacket”– and I circle that. I also stop and ask for opinions– is she pretty? Does she likehim? Etc and I personalise a bit too– the pig eats eggs, so I ask kids “do you like eggs?” Etc.
It’s a great little film, huh?
Kyle –
I have done this same video and I do movietalk for the entire period as part of my 2-week schedule. If you want a good clip, just type in “CGI Animated Shorts” in the youtube search bar. You will get tons of movietalk worthy clips. Dragonboy is probably my favorite and it is extremely effective with the kids (has humor, love, action, and emotion all in a short clip)
I could share my videos. I have like 30+ MovieTalk worthy clips that are favorited on YouTube. They are animation shorts without dialogue. I love animation shorts because they are just so appealing to kids, and its easy to find ones without dialogue. Well, here they are (hopefully the link works):
youtube.com/playlist?list=FLmGRD-jEANtej9xSPDT7y_Q
Sean –
I’ve had some success doing MovieTalk with the short animated film “Alma”. It won an Oscar a couple of years ago.
Leah –
Here is my ppt for Chicken or the Egg with German sentences in the notes section:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3jpi5oZMfagMlpOTGhJRWkycE0/edit?usp=sharing
Kyle –
I did Crayon Dragon today: youtube.com/watch?v=EorkUqmeHds