Choose a movie, a series of TV commericals or any other video-taped
resource that you like or
that learners are familiar with and compile lists of things for viewers or
listeners to find. It is also
possible to prepare a library of films and allow the players to search the
tapes.
Each team gets a different list. If only one machine is available, a time
limit may be set and the
team that finds the most in the alloted time wins. It is also possible to
assign this as a week long
hunt (on student's own time). In such a case, one tape or many tapes can
be used.
Here are some suggested categories:
Information: Ask players to find specific facts or figures. These facts
may be verbal or visual.
Information found on charts, graphs and in the closing credits of a film
are good sources.
Counts: Count the number of times a certain word is said in a clip. Count
the number of people
or objects of a certain quality (eg. people who are male, or people
wearing blue, or objects made
of wood). Count the number of people doing a particular activity (eg.
people who talk to a
particular character, people sleeping in class, people boarding a train).
Count the number of times
a particular action is performed (eg. number of times a character goes up
and down stairs, crosses
a bridge, lights a cigarette).
Scenes: Find a particular scene (eg. a love scene), location (eg. a river,
Paris), view or social
activity (eg. a picnic, a speech).
Speech Acts: Find an example of a speech act. (eg. inviting, refusing,
requesting, making an
introduction, apologizing).
Submitted by Donna Tatsuki