1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video, and activity suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section.

2. Download the file for the second activity and have the copies ready for students.

3. Use this activity to review types of movies and make sure students know the words ‘genre’.

4. Tell students they are going to review vocabulary and practice it for the next activities.

5. Ask students to say what comes to their mind when they listen to these words, ‘SILENT MOVIE’, ‘CHAPLIN’, ‘SOUND’, ‘DIALOGUES’, ‘TYPES’.

6. Distribute the worksheet and ask students to answer individually. Guide them through the activities and set a time limit for it.

7. When time is up invite students to form groups of three and complete the activity making sure they are not only copying answers but discussing them with their classmates.

8. Invite groups to exchange their worksheets with another group and correct answers. Then, tell students to sit with the students they exchanged papers with and talk about their wrong answers and correct.

9. Ask students if they like mystery movies and horror films and what feeling they experience with them.

10. Invite students to discuss what the elements in a horror film are necessary to project in the audience terror and if visual effects are necessary or not.

11. Introduce the video clip by asking the class to imagine those films in the 1900s, then, in the 1800s… and record some of the answers.

12. Tell students they are going to watch a clip The Haunted Castle and talk about it with a group.

13. Play the video. It is probable that your students will find it ‘funny’ regarding the visual effects and the location compared to what they see in movies these days.

14. Ask students to identify, a) setting b) characters c) title cards d) clothes e) effects

15. Invite students to work in groups of three and share their answers to discuss them.

16. Ask students what they think of this production from the 1800s

1.Have the beam projector ready to show the video suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section, and download, print and make photocopies for students of the file for activity

2. Ask students if they’ve ever watched, ‘EL Gordo y El Flaco’ (name given in Spanish to this pair of famous comedians in the 1900s.

3. Tell students about the popularity of these comedians and their show in Mexico long time ago and encourage them to take advantage of this cultural opportunity to learn about silent movies and other countries as well.

4. Tell students this is a collection of funny clips. Decide if you want to play them all or chose maybe three of them.

5. Play the first one “The wrong hat” and comment it with students,

“What do they think about body language used in the clip?”

“What makes the pair of comedians so funny?” Can they imitate them? Why / Why not?

5. Play some other clips and ask the class to rewrite the title cards they saw.

6. Offer help and invite students to read aloud their cards.

7. Ask students to work in pairs and write 5 words (all kind of words related to the topic [silent] movies and share it with another pair.

8. Tell students they are going to practice the vocabulary they have been using as well as expressions about movies.

9. Show the activity and invite different pairs of students to complete the sentences about the different sections, parts of movies, people in movies, movie genres, blockbusters, and at the theater.

10. Monitor the activity but this time do not help with vocabulary since part of the activity is that students discuss and remember words.

11. When they are finished, invite some pairs of students to give you the answers, type them and check, ere they correct?

12. To finish the activity, choose some pairs at random and ask them to ‘improvise’ not read a paragraph of one of the sections reviewed, i.e., people in movies by using the information they just practiced.

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1. Invitar al alumno a realizar un recorrido virtual en el centro de cultura digital

2. Seleccionar el aprataado de cine

3. Seleccionar un cortometraje de cine mudo

4. Ver un cortometraje de cine mudo.

5. Identificar emociones y espresiones no verbales de los perrsonajes 

https://centroculturadigital.mx/

1. Invitar al alumno a realizar un recorrido virtual en el centro de cultura digital

2. Seleccionar el aprataado de cine

3. Seleccionar un cortometraje de cine mudo

4. Ver un cortometraje de cine mudo.

5. Identificar emociones y espresiones no verbales de los perrsonajes 

https://centroculturadigital.mx/

1. Invitar al alumno a realizar un recorrido virtual en el centro de cultura digital

2. Seleccionar el aprataado de cine

3. Seleccionar un cortometraje de cine mudo

4. Ver un cortometraje de cine mudo.

5. Identificar emociones y espresiones no verbales de los perrsonajes