AIDA EMILIA MÁRQUEZ

LEVEL: 1st year of ESO

 Vampire Baseball

In a mixed-ability class, students will watch a clip from the film Twilight where vampires are playing football (from 00:20 to 2:14. First, they will watch it and then teacher will ask them to

1- Describe the scene (Ellicit information regarding weather, place, actions, characters: clothes and physical description)

2- Describe what vampires can do in this clip.

These two questions will be answered orally so that they can practise their oral skills. As they are very open questions, they will allow both weaker and stronger students to provide information for each one on their own level. Therefore, in the case of the second one, they can make sentences like “They can jump high” (weaker students) or “they can juggle with a baseball bat” (stronger students).

Finally, the teacher will ask them to make a podcast. Stronger students will be paired with weaker students. The stronger ones will play the role of vampires that are interviewed by journalists (weaker students) about their lives as vampires. The weaker students will prepare the questions. The teacher will provide them with some ideas like: “How did you become a vampire?” “Can you describe the place where you live?” The stronger students may help them if necessary. Once the questions are written, the stronger students will work on the answers. Then, both of them will record the interview together.