Have you tried this week’s Spotlight lesson with your English learners? In this lesson, Pako, a young actor from Brazil, is starring in a movie. The reading and exercises in this lesson focus on a movie poster. Students complete exercises that review the simple present and present progressive tenses.
You can extend this lesson by having your students create their own movie posters! These posters will be a great addition to your classroom walls.
Movie Poster Activity
1. Make sure that your students are familiar with how to talk about themselves using the simple present and present progressive tenses. Use the lesson Pako from Sprout English’s Library to review these tenses.
2. Print one copy of this worksheet for each student.
3. Give your students some time to fill in the blanks and write sentences about a movie they are starring in.
4. On page 2, have students draw and color a movie poster using the sentences from page 1. (You can assign the art for homework if necessary.) Like Pako’s poster, students should include the title of the movie, and the words “Starring (Student Name).” You could also give students the option of swapping their responses with a partner. Each student could draw someone else’s movie poster.
5. Give students a chance to present their movie posters to a small group or the whole class. Challenge students to present their posters without reading the sentences they wrote on page 1.
6. Place your students’ movie posters on your classroom walls as a fun visual for parents and visitors to see. You could place the following questions near the poster so that visitors know which questions to ask. These questions will prompt learners to use the simple present and present progressive tense when describing their posters.
What is the title of your movie?
What is your role in the movie?
Where does this scene take place?
What is happening in this scene?
What are you thinking in this scene?
Make It a Black-Tie Affair
You could even host a “film festival” in your classroom and invite your students to come to class dressed in nice clothing (or have this event on picture day). Invite other students from the school to come to the film festival where the “actors” (your students) will stand near their movie posters and present them to the guests. For fun, consider showing a real film after the presentations. More advanced students may want to try using iMovie to make a film trailer. This movie poster activity could also be done in pairs.
Related
Find this week’s lesson in the Library – Present Continuous Stories.
Simple Present Vs. Present Progressive
Simple Present Vs. Present Progressive – Grammar Worksheet
Teaching the Simple Present
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