Time for another halloween themed video lesson with this short film:
Play the clip to students, then hand out a comprehension sheet and play it again (I find I have to let them watch first without having 30 pieces of paper flapping in people’s hands).
The language is really simple and has handy subtitles so you could easily adapt your questions to suit any ability.
Here are some example questions to get you started:
What date is halloween?
What vegetable are they carving into a lantern?
What are they carving the pumpkin into?
What do they put inside the pumpkin?
What does fancy dress mean?
What is the boy dressing up as?
What is the girl dressing up as?
What time do they get changed into their outfits?
What other outfits can you see at the party?
What fruit did they play games with?
What is apple bobbing?
Who comes to the door?
What do the trick or treaters say?
What do they give the trick or treaters?
Depending on the level of the class you could choose to use multiple choice questions, open questions or a mixture of both. With lower ability classes I often go through the video and pause it at specific points to give the students a chance to read the subtitles fully. If you make sure that your questions run in chronological order you can pause the video as each answer crops up to make it even less challenging.
A further activity that you can do for advanced students with any video comprehension lesson is to have them write their own questions for a partner – students love to play teacher every now and then!
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