Short Film in Language Teaching - Step 3.4 Flashbacks and the past tense by British Film Institute https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2017-07-02 14:57:46 UTC 2023-07-16 19:36:52 UTC hello@padlet.com Flashback 'El Juego huet_muriel https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/193721630 Example of teaching activities using flashback]]> 2017-10-04 06:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/193721630 Flashbacks marvorontsova https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/198164900 Students draw a picture from a storyboard of the 'Present' and the other student 'flashback' and tell the story of the 'Past' or add more pictures to a storyboard]]> 2017-10-18 11:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/198164900 Famous flashback scene in Disney film "Ratatuille" donati_alessandra https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/198662011 https://youtu.be/RVd6CnKLPgY
Flashback activities  can work very effectively to practice past tenses and reported speech.
I used the flashback scene from Ratatuille to make my students describe the relation between smells and memories.
The prompt was:
"That  time I smelled...and immediately began to remember.."
I used this activity with my B2 group of  5 students.
We first had a short brainstorming about how smells can set memories in motion.
Students then worked individually writing a short text in the past tense .
We then put all the texts together in a box,  mix them and pick one up, so that each student had another student's text.
After that, I asked the students to read the text they had picked up silently. As a conclusion, I asked  them to take turns in  reporting the content of the text  using reported speech.
The activity worked very well and students showed enthusiasm throughout the lesson.]]> 2017-10-19 13:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/198662011 Flashback "The Notebook" 1947marga https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/199144170 Teaching activities following the model of our Lead Educator (BFI), Muriel Huet, adding that I am grateful for the way she instructs us with examples. Blessings.]]> 2017-10-20 17:04:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/199144170 You could choose specific moments of films and ask sts what they think happened before that or how the characters ended up in that situatio. They could record themselves and add some effects to show how they "travel in time". https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/205128295 2017-11-09 04:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/205128295 Flashback Storyboard Activity esthergombor https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/209451662 Another Flashback activity could be that participants think of a collective experience they had together and how they feel about it in the present. For example: a really good excursion in the past, and TODAY we all feel happy because of it. We use the happy state as the present situation and draw the storyboard of past events that have lead up to this current happiness. Limit flashback storyboard pictures to a few only and ask learners to annotate them in the past tense. This will also boost collaboration for planning of what should be included in the content. ]]> 2017-11-22 14:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bfieducation/j11ozdo5ps3v/wish/209451662