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WARMING-UP ACTIVITY: Interview with Alec Baldwin about Halyna's death

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WARMING-UP ACTIVITY: Interview with Alec Baldwin about Halyna's death

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1. What can you see in the picture?

2. Who are the people in this room?

(They are expected to answer an interviewer and a guest)

3. Who do you think is the interviewer and the interviewee?  Why?

4. What do you think they are talking about? (They are expected to answer the case of Halyna)

5. Do you know what happened in this event?

6. What can you say about the decoration of the room? Do you think it is a regular house? Have you ever seen a house like that in Argentina? How would you describe the room, what adjectives would you use?

7. As you can see, the light is really dim. How does it make you feel? Do the room and light have a certain colour?

8. Look at their facial expressions and postures. What does their body language say?

9. What are they wearing? Is it a formal or an informal style of clothing?

After the whole class finishes answering, the teacher guides the students to the topic of the class: Alec Baldwin’s interview about Halyna’s death, and gives some information about her job in the movie set.

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A pre-listening activity is important to contextualize the learners about what is happening in the listening material they are going to work with.

Through their background knowledge, they can infer the human activity that is taking place, identify the people involved, and understand the topic. This can help to diminish the difficulties of listening in a foreign language by providing context. In the selection of the pictures, we take into account the most important participants and elements.

This schemata-activating process helps the learner to prepare for listening by checking vocabulary, ascertaining background knowledge that is essential for understanding, gaining a hint of what the topic is, and exploring any contextual factors that might otherwise make the listening difficult.

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Listen to the interview about Halyna’s death. Then order the text and complete the empty gaps.

__A__ I think the big question and the one you must have asked yourself a thousand times: how could this have happened?

____ And the second thing is is that all of what happened on that day leading up to this event was precipitated on one idea and that is that Halyna and I had something profound in common… and that is we both assumed the gun was 8.____, other than those, you know, uh, dummy rounds.

____ I met her and we worked together on the… some of the mapping out of what we were gonna do on the 4.___ which, you know, in the movie terms if you go make a movie with Scorsese, you and the 5.___ don’t sit down uh they… solicit your ideas of how to make the film, you know what I mean. In the case of 6. ____, we sat down collaboratively and talked a lot about what we wanted to do… in that uh precious amount of time we had but… um… I… I wanna make sure that I don’t come across like I’m the victim because we have two 7.____ here.

____ Well… There’s two things I wanna say about that: one is that when I talk about this my concern is that I don’t sound like I’m the victim. Because there 1.____ a victim, there’s a woman who died… and my friend got 2.____, he’s my friend, and she was a 3.___ friend.

____ I met her and we worked together on the… some of the mapping out of what we were gonna do on the 4.___ which, you know, in the movie terms if you go make a movie with Scorsese, you and the 5.___ don’t sit down uh they… solicit your ideas of how to make the film, you know what I mean. In the case of 6. ____, we sat down collaboratively and talked a lot about what we wanted to do… in that uh precious amount of time we had but… um… I… I wanna make sure that I don’t come across like I’m the victim because we have two 7.____ here.

Listening is an active process that's why we choose two while listening activities. The purpose of the first activity is to order the description of the events described by the interviewed. The second activity which is a selective listening task, makes students be active by doing something while they listen.

This kind of activities develop reading, writing and listening skills.

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Y2meta.app - Alec Baldwin Exclusive Interview - Part 1 _ ABC News (online-video-cutter.com)

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After watching the video, the teacher will give the students a multiple-choice activity. They have to choose the correct answers.

1. How many and who are the victims according to Alec Baldwin?

a. 1: Halyna

b. 2: His friend and himself

c. 3: Halyna, his friend and himself

d. 2: Halyna and his friend

2. Who died because of the shooting?

a. his friend

b. Halyna

c. the director

3. What did Alec Baldwin and Halyna do together?

a. the planning of the film's photography

b. the choreographies in the film

c. the testing of guns

d. the jumping stunts

4. Who solicits your ideas for a film according to Alec Baldwin?

a. Only the director of the film

b. the DP

c. the director of the film and the DP

d. the actors

5. What did Halyna and Alec Baldwin profoundly have in common? Both assumed...

a. the film was short

b. the film was great

c. the gun was clean

d. the gun was empty

6. What is the name of the false prop bullets that Alec Baldwin mentions?

a. prop bullets

b. dummy rounds

c. tummy rounds

d. prop rounds

The purpose of this responsive listening task is to check comprehension. In this case, we chose a multiple-choice exercise with four options to increase difficulty and created questions to check students' understanding of the video's main ideas. By choosing only one option, listeners select from misleading alternatives to determine real comprehension.

We have to go from the surface to the base of a text.

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The teacher will divide students into 2 groups. One group will ask questions as the journalist in the interview and the other group will think possible answers to those questions as the interviewed, Alec Balwin, would answer. They will produce no more than 3 questions with their corresponding answers to add at the end of the video.

Steps:

Firstly, everybody in the journalist group will have to agree on a question they would ask Alec Baldwin if they were the journalist on the video and they will share it with the other group orally. After that, the Alec Baldwin group will agree on a possible answer to that question (as if they were Alec Baldwin himself) and they will also share it with the other group so they continue a coherent interview with another question. This can be repeated 2 or 3 times.

Variation:

If it is too difficult for a group to create the questions or the answers, they can swap personalities so every group would have done a question and an answer.

The 'after-listening' activity will be a production to check students' comprehension of the topic

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min 1:15 to 2:20

I think the big question and the one you must have asked yourself a thousand times: how could this have happened?

- Well… There’s two things I wanna say about that: one is that when I talk about this my concern is that I don’t sound like I’m the victim. Because there is a victim, there’s a woman who died… and my friend got shot, he’s my friend, and she was a new friend. I met her and we worked together on the… some of the mapping out of what we were gonna do on the film which, you know, in the movie terms if you go make a movie with Scorsese, you and the DP don’t sit down uh they… solicit your ideas of how to make the film, you know what I mean. In the case of Halyna, we sat down collaboratively and talked a lot about what we wanted to do… in that uh precious amount of time we had but… um… I… I wanna make sure that I don’t come across like I’m the victim because we have two victims here. And the second thing is is that all of what happened on that day leading up to this event was precipitated on one idea and that is that Halyna and I had something profound in common… and that is we both assumed the gun was empty, other than those, you know, uh, dummy rounds.

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Alec Baldwin Exclusive Interview - Part 1 | ABC News

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The register includes three elements:

The Field is the WHAT and expresses the purpose for using the language. In this case the speaker, Alec Baldwin, is justifying Halyna's death from his point of view.

The Tenor is the WHO, the participants of the human activity and it expresses the relationship between them. There are two tenors, the American actor Alexander “Alec” Baldwin, who comes from a family of actors, he has been an actor for more than 40 years and has participated in more than 80 films. And the interviewer George Stephanopoulos, an American journalist and television host, that we cannot see here because it is an extract from a longer interview. In this passage, Alec is trying to sympathize with the interviewer and the audience, trying to appeal to their emotions. He emphasizes that he and Halyna were friends and that he did not do anything wrong, they were just working and it was an accident.

The Mode is the HOW, it allows the textual function to manifest through a channel, oral or written. In this case, it is an interview face to face and the channel is spoken language.