Dealing with functions

Although there are different approaches to teaching functions, we believe that illustrating the language in context is the clearest way. When students see people apologising, inviting, suggesting, etc, they fully comprehend what functions mean and how to deal with them.

Here is the lesson plan prepared to work with the movie The Haunted Mansion. The main character, Jim Evers, is talking to his wife: is he apologising? Is he introducing himself? What is he doing?

Enjoy this Lesson Plan with your Pre-Intermediate students and let us know how it works out.

If you haven’t seen the film, here’s the trailer.

Movie Guide 07 based on the film "The Terminal"

We want to share with you a lesson plan based on the first scene of the movie "The Terminal".

Movie Trailer

Taking into account the importance of the protection of intellectual property rights, original films must be used at all times to exploit Challenge Education™ Movie Guides


The Lesson Plan we are presenting today, deals with airports and immigration forms. It is designed for students of English at Pre Intermediate/A2 Level.

If you arrive at the Airport you must pass through Passport Control, Baggage Reclaim Area and Customs immediately after leaving your plane. In each area you will be asked different questions.
What questions are heard in the scene?
What happens if something irregular is detected with your passport?

Read this doc on Scribd: Lesson Plan Scene 01 from The Terminal Movie Guide

The complete Movie Guide has 18 Lesson Plans with more than 40 photocopiable activities for students (107pages). You can access the index here.

Busniess English Lesson Plans

Do you have Business English Courses? Do you want to supplement your classes with lesson plans based on movies?

Many teachers ask for Business English Lesson Plans so today we are publishing the Business English Index.


Negotiations, Deals, Leadership, team work, appointments, retirement, audits and inspection, customers, job interviews, telephoning, meetings, staff duties, and much more...

We have selected all the Lesson Plans for Business English already released. Just as our list of Movie Guides increases every month, our list of Business Lesson Plans will also increase.

Remember that these Lesson Plans belong to a complete Movie Guide based on the Movie.

Movie Guide 01 based on the film "Shrek"

Challenge Education Movie Guide 01 is based on the film "Shrek" It was the first e-guide released in 2005 and it is one of our bestsellers.

MOVIE TRAILER


Let Shrek, Princess Fiona and Donkey help your students discover a wide range of new words and expressions. Both kids and adults can profit from these 16 Lesson Plans from the Kingdom of Far, Far Away.

1 lesson plan for Beginner
2 lesson plans for Elementary
6 lesson plans for Pre Intermediate
3 lesson plans for Intermediate
4 lesson plans for Upper Intermediate

In this opportunity we want to share with you one of the lesson plans for Upper Intermediate/B2 level included in the e-guide.
This lesson plan is based on scene 11 (0:49:13 to 0:55:24) of the film and it deals with human values, making students think of stereotypes and how they may affect first impressions. Why does Shrek say to the Princess “You are not exactly what I expected”?
Students are encouraged to debate on the topic and share personal experiences.

Read this doc on Scribd: Lesson Plan Scene 11 from Shrek 1 Movie Guide

If you use this Lesson Plan with your students we will be delighted to get your feedback. Would you like to see the complete index of the e-guide with all the lesson plans available? Click here