In this entry, i will show you on how to make it interesting for students to practice passive voice by answering comprehension question from a movie that they watch.
Teaching comprehension has always been associated with the use of text as the stimulus. Students sometimes get bored with too much use of text in their lesson.
Now let us use movie as an alternative for us to teach comprehension and focusing on the use of passive voice to describe incidents.
1. Select either a short video (no more than 30 minutes) or an excerpt
from a longer video. Use about 10 minutes of an action-packed
scene. For instance, the movie The Guardian (2006)
2. Go through the questions with the students on the worksheet so the students know in advance what to look for when you show the video. Use a variety of tenses in your questions.
Examples:
What happened to the victim's wife?
Why do you think the officer is angry at Jake?
What do you think will happen to Jake next?
make sure the students understand that they must reply in the
passive. They cannot answer, “The husband tries to strangle her wife,” to the first
question (above). They must answer with a response such as “the wife is strangled by her own husband” Students have a tendency to answer in the active voice for a question in the future, so you
may want to solicit some responses in the passive or have the students brainstorm answers to the questions in groups.
3. Show the video. Let the students take notes if they want.
4. Arrange the students in groups of three or four to discuss the video and try to form answers to the questions. you, as the teacher, has to guide them if they face any problem constructing the passive sentences because sometimes creating passive sentences might be quite hard for students with limited proficiency.
Happy teaching!! :)
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