I took a leaf out of Kisdobos' book. Students are supposed to watch the video once, then watch it again and, in pairs, write dialogue (the original is in an intentionally incomprehensible grammelot). If time allows, some students then perform their versions as the video runs again. Finally, they watch it and unscramble sentences to obtain my version.

It's the very first episode of the much-loved Italian animation "La Linea". Out of a horizontal straight line, the silhouette of a man is born. He walks along the line, makes encounters and at times demands the designer's hand helps him get out of the tricky situations that same hand has put him in. 

La Linea - Writing & Unscrambling Dialogue

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Let's do English ESL general vocabulary practice. I took a leaf out of Kisdobos' book. Students are supposed to watch the video once, then watch it again and, i…