Mr. Bean Takes an Exam

Valentinapapa

October 25, 2017

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HELPING LEARNERS USE CHUNKS COMMUNICATIVELY

In this video we talk about how we can help our students use chunks communicatively - we share 4 ideas that have worked well for us in the classroom. We’re using an interactive video quiz in one of our ideas, which you can find here.

Enjoy!

Anna Csíky

iSLCollective teacher trainer

Task description & scene summary

Task description:

Practising simple past. Students must put the verbs in the simple past tense while describing what happened.

Scene summary:

Mr bean is sitting for his maths exams. Although he had studied geometry well enough, the test surprises him negatively.

Video source: The Exam | Mr. Bean Official

Video length: 5 minutes 57 seconds

Video genre: Short film (animated or with human actors)

Lesson type: Grammar practice

Level:

Pre-intermediate (A2)

Student types:

elementary school

Dialect:

American English

Vocabulary:

Actions

Grammar:

Past simple tense

Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution License

First published: 2017-10-25, 21:59:27 (GMT+1)

About the author

Valentinapapa

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) How _____ (be) Mr Bean when he ____ (see) the exam quetions?

Excited
Nervous
Angry

Fill the gap: He ________________________ (not know) the answers

Fill the gap: He ________________________ (write) his name.

Fill the gap: and ________________________ (decide) to cheat!

Fill the gap: but the man ________________________ (see) him.

Fill the gap: He ________________________ (see) an answer from the man...

Fill the gap: but the answer ________________________ (be) wrong!

Fill the gap: He ________________________ (move) closer to the other man

Fill the gap: and quickly ________________________ (get) back to his place

10)

Fill the gap: He ________________________ (hide) his answers.

11)

Fill the gap: Then, he ________________________ (lie) down on his desk

12)

Fill the gap: and ________________________ (blow) the paper.

13) Finally, he _____ (drop) his pen but he ______ (not succeed) to see much and so he ____ (start) crying

Answer the question using your own words

14)

Fill the gap: In the end, he ________________________ (realize) that..

15)

Fill the gap: he ________________________ (know) the answers from the 2nd test

About the author

Valentinapapa

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

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

Comments

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mfilo

2017-10-26 19:46:04

Thanks

esudiante_1_2_3

2017-10-27 19:02:16

Thanks

AnzhelaF

2017-10-29 13:49:10

Thanks

michaelan

2017-11-10 12:24:19

Thanks

michaelan

2017-11-10 12:24:26

Thanks

50ces

2018-04-10 14:47:06

very good

AuroraCorta

2018-09-15 07:39:59

Thanks I love it, and my students will do for sure

npkrisztina

2019-01-10 07:22:26

thankya

Mariya122.

2019-09-15 17:32:45

I like it as a teacher, and even my students enjoyed it. I used it as a criterion test.I would like to have comprehension questions in such videosMany thanks, so helpful

Elena_Sergeevna_SPb

2020-01-26 14:42:58

Great exercise! Thank you!

Juli1706

2020-02-08 08:22:09

It is a great one! Thank you!

Dgeni

2020-03-14 20:29:41

thx !

lyamaly

2020-03-20 01:17:43

Excellent! Love it. Thank you

Matthi123

2020-03-31 10:59:26

Very nice exercise

Vrabche

2020-04-09 12:58:07

Thank you. Enjoyable and useful.

miriam1712

2020-04-13 04:01:37

Thanks!!!

Houzali

2020-04-13 20:01:11

interesting to my students and felt very excited

vorontsovanat

2020-04-14 15:57:32

Thanks a lot

EstelleT31

2020-04-21 16:01:06

Loved it, Mr Bean is so funny, thank you for this activity that will certainly help my students with the hatred irregular verbs for once!

RodolfoEdgardo

2020-05-06 22:16:41

Thanks a lot. My students will enjoy practisin the simple past. My regards

Szabocsilla

2020-05-10 23:55:34

Thank you very much!

Sam.zubedy

2020-05-21 01:29:36

Thanks

atsirka

2020-05-27 03:14:34

Thank you, it came in handy!

marlonjpd

2020-05-27 16:05:23

FANTASTIC

silvinasan2003

2020-06-02 10:56:23

Very useful,thank you!

Perteacher

2020-07-14 01:40:17

Thanks so much! Now, I'm teaching online and sometimes I think my students are bored but with these videos they are fun and more interested in the classes.

Claudiaale

2020-08-05 01:49:12

Thank you!

letizia

2020-09-17 14:14:03

very useful thanks a lot!

Rosacacho

2020-09-19 17:48:15

Thank you !

carlosxxx

2020-10-09 02:00:41

thanks

Svetlanabr

2020-10-20 12:33:40

Thanks!

Zaid291

2020-11-01 11:31:53

thank you a lough

lu16g

2020-11-05 16:30:18

I love Mr. Bean!

achi1234

2020-11-16 19:27:40

a fun way to review the past!

wwansbury

2020-12-14 00:18:35

Super awesome

sess0101

2021-01-17 19:28:11

Wonderful! Incredibly funny and very good to learn simple past!

MariaVans

2021-01-24 00:36:10

Very nice! Thank you!

lainec

2021-02-04 21:22:27

thank you!

daniloALT

2021-02-18 00:10:03

How can I download this? Can I use this even without internet?

Tunderussian

2021-03-19 14:31:41

Great job:) Thank you!

Maroubo

2021-05-03 20:55:50

Great activity!

mochaw

2021-05-04 05:41:09

Mr Bean is SUCH a dunce and that's why this works so well. Thank you!

Regie_K

2021-05-15 10:11:32

Helpful

Melofee

2021-05-16 22:56:48

Thanks a lot.

mufideye

2021-06-08 18:53:31

thanks

operezmendez

2021-06-16 07:18:29

Very good so funny

aysenayar

2021-10-24 18:26:59

thanks a lot for this great exercise!

Giordie85

2021-11-17 14:11:21

thanks for your work :)

ngokhahanthoitam

2022-01-30 07:18:24

Thanks!

Speedestick

2022-03-28 08:09:27

It was

IrenaGeorgieva

2022-05-24 13:18:36

Thanks!

ShadiaConstantine

2022-06-22 06:41:47

I had not used the video lessons before, this one was so great for my beginning Japanese students. Thank you so much!

AndyGrigs

2022-09-15 16:00:57

Thank you veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch!