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Silent Movies

Jack Todhunter | Friday July 31, 2009

Categories: Courses, GCSE, KS3, Writing, Productive, Creative or Original Writing

Find an old movie…one on video or DVD (obscure Sky Channels are fantastic for this) and having made sure that none of your students has seen it, show a random scene with the volume turned down. Yep. No sound at all!

Ask students to concentrate on the body language to see if they can work out what is going on.

They then work in groups to produce their version of the dialogue.

Usually has the class doubling up with laughter at show time.


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