Week 7 Using Video in a Grammar Lesson

This week I learned about using video in a grammar lesson. Inspired by Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals , I created an activity to practice the passive voice in past tense.

Activity

First introduce the passive by asking the students to translate from Hebrew:

"How would you say: הוא אכל פיצה" ?

"How would you say: הוא היה עצוב" ?

"How would you say: הפיצה נאכל" ?

Then remind them of the distinction between active and passive (which should be familiar from Hebrew) and give them the correct form of passive verbs in the past tense.

Give them a chart with common verbs, past simple and past participle.

Then tell them you're going to show them a short skit. 

Pass out the worksheet below. Tell them that as they watch they should write letters to show who did the action or whom the action was done to:

Directions:

Who did it? Who was it done to?

3= 3 stooges          (or one of them)    B = boss       OM = old man         H = hats

1) _____________________ were thrown out of the door.

2) __________________ said, "We just got fired!"

3) Their __________________ were thrown at them by an angry boss.

4) ______________________ were thrown out of the door again!

5)_____________________­­­­­­­­­­­­­  ran after them down the street waving a knife and yelling.

8) ______________ were chased down the street and hid in a nearby shop.

9) Then they were greeted by ­an ______________.

10) _______________said, "You came in answer to my advertisement, of course."

11) __________  was slapped by the tall woman who laughed and said, "That's a good one!"

13) She told _____________________, "You're going to be dentists!"

14) Then, __________________ shook hands happily and said, "Hiya, Doc! Congratulations!"

Stop the video at 4:27 as the dental assistant goes out. Then go over the answers with the students.

Then tell the students you're going to show them more of the video. (Until 8:16, when the three stooges go out west.) Tell them they need to make three sentences about what happens using the passive voice and three sentences using the active voice. Tell them they should jot down notes in Hebrew as they watch, and then translate what they've written in Hebrew into English after the video.

Useful vocabulary:

dentist

false teeth

bite / bit /bitten 

graduate

diploma