Despicable Me

It is important to work with the children's relationships with their friends and family. The movie is about a lonely man, who gets to know three children and his life changes.

Pre-teaching

In the pre-teaching we do an interactive activity in which we have to show trust to the other person. So we're going to divide the children into pairs. One person in each pair gets blindfolded and the other has to guide the person. Then the roles are changed. Afterwards the students explain how they felt while they were blindfolded. The teacher writes their feelings on the blackboard. 

In the end we will sit on the floor in a circle and talk about how important it is to trust eachother, and that we as humans need to be with other people.

Teaching

Watch the film Despicable Me.  If there's not enough time to watch the whole movie we can watch only certain parts of it.

Post-teaching

In the post-teaching the students can work with the ICT, for example on Glogster.

The children can choose some images and a video from the movie and they can write about it.

Monsters University!

We are going to see a small part of the Monsters University film, because it is a funny film and many children like this film. But before that we are going to look at the emotions.

The following activities are designed for children between 7 and 8 years.

Pre-teaching

The objective is to teach the various types of emotions with the students. The material that we need is emotions or feelings flashcards .

Activity: Guess the emotions


The teacher  distributes the flashcards to the students. Each student has a flashcard. The teacher chooses one person and he/she should imitate the image of the flashcard in order for the other teammates to guess the emotion.

With this activity the students can demonstrate their creativity.


Teaching


Now it's time to watch a video. Children must choose a character and watch the different expressions and emotions that appear in the video.

Post-teaching

Finally we can do an interesting activity. The students have to create their own monster!

We can use the Voki web page! (http://www.voki.com/create.php)
The students can choose a monster and they can add a voice, a background etc. They must investigate!

After that we can describe their monsters.