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Michelle Obama Becoming Trailer Listening Practice

katieso August 02, 2020
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Task description & scene summary

Task description:
Listening task with MC and fill in the blanks about the documentary of Michelle Obama's Becoming
Scene summary:
This trailer talks about the life of Michelle Obama and includes footages of her book tour.
Video source: Becoming | Official Trailer | Netflix
Video length: 2 minutes 1 second
Video genre: Documentary film
Lesson type: Basic listening comprehension - Hearing check ("Can you make out the words being said?")
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Student types:
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution License
First published: 2020-08-02, 03:09:22 (GMT+1)
About the author

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1)

Fill the gap: It was a typical working-class ________________________

2) Some good ________, some good ___________ ,, some good __________.

  • times, music, barbecue
  • music, tyres, barbecue
  • lyrics, times, barbecue
  • music, barbecue, times

3) What does "reaching too high mean"?

Answer the question using your own words

4)

Fill the gap: We can't afford to wait for the world to be ________________________ to start feeling ________________________

5)

Fill the gap: Michelle and Barack Obama aren't ________________________

6)

Fill the gap: If we could open up a little bit more to each other and ________________________ that would break down the barriers.

7) What are the three adjectives the girl used to describe herself?

Answer the question using your own words

About the author

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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chrisjap
2020-08-04 04:53:20
Great lesson. Can I ask how you created the video quiz?