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The Story of Missing U

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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:
Students enrich their vocabulary with this word play. Meant to be watched without sound.
Scene summary:
The letter "I" is a lonely author who finds the letter "u" is missing from her keyboard. She goes off to search and find her missing "U", they then become "we".
Video source: Missing U
Video length: 2 minutes 29 seconds
Video genre: Miscellaneous
Lesson type: Asking about the visuals ("What can/could you see?")
Level:
Student types:
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution License
First published: 2017-10-13, 18:47:55 (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) Which letter does the woman look like?

Fill the gap: The woman looks like the letter ________________________

2) What are the desk, stool and typewriter made of?

  • wood
  • metal
  • words
  • paper
  • air

3) What is the problem?

Fill the gap: The letter U is ________________________

4) The woman feels____________

  • delighted
  • bored
  • horrified
  • sleepy

5) What is the problem with the clouds?

Fill the gap: They are missing the ________________________ "U".

6) The lights in the windows form a word. Which word?

Fill the gap: The word is ________________________

7) The letter "C" here is a symbol for what the woman sees. What does she see?

Fill the gap: The woman sees the ________________________

8) The woman says she must "embark" on a journey. "Embark" means...

  • to begin something exciting
  • to begin an exam
  • to begin washing dishes

9) What is the ship made of?

Answer the question using your own words

10) How does the woman feel now?

  • She feels seasick.
  • She feels carsick
  • She feels homesick.

11)

Fill the gap: The woman arrived at a ________________________

12) How is the woman feeling now? She is feeling ___________.

  • depressed
  • determined
  • hungry
  • tired

13) The woman can see umbrellas, a ukulele and UFOs. What do they all have in common?

Fill the gap: They all ________________________ with the letter "u".

14) Which letter is missing now?

Answer the question using your own words

15) Look at the man. Which letter does he look like?

Fill the gap: The man looks ________________________

16) The man and the woman are together now. Which word shows this?

Fill the gap: We see the word ________________________

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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orinyehezkel
2020-03-16 10:50:42
מאוד נהנתי מהמשחק
Rmwillis72
2020-10-18 15:03:49
This is an awesome story.