Lesson: Critical Thinking - Movie review

Teacher’s notes
Level: Elementary-Pre-intermediate
Age: Teenagers / Adults
Time: 45 minutes
Language objectives: to write movie reviews of imaginary movies using
pictures as movie posters
Key life skills: expressing opinions, analysing information, critical thinking
Materials: one copy of the pictures and two copies of the ‘Movie review’
chart from the worksheet for each group of three students; a copy of each
picture stuck on a blank piece of paper with enough space for students to
write around the picture

Procedure 4. Feedback as a class.

1. Ask the class to think about the ingredients of a 5. Now ask the students to work in groups of three.
good movie and call out their ideas. Give one copy of the pictures and two copies of the
‘Movie review’ chart to each group of students.
2. Divide the students into six groups and tell them
that they are going to look at some pictures which 6. Ask them to choose two of the pictures and
could be posters illustrating movies. Give one picture write reviews of the movies they might illustrate
on a blank piece of paper to each group and ask by inventing details to complete the ‘Movie review’
them to write, in the blank space around the picture, charts. Encourage the students to be as imaginative
any words or expressions which they associate with or amusing as they like.
the picture or the type of movie they think it could 7. When they have finished, ask the students to read
illustrate. Tell them that they have three minutes to out their reviews without showing the corresponding
do this. pictures. The rest of the class should guess which
3. Ask the students to give their pictures to you. picture they are referring to.
Pin the pictures up around the classroom and
Follow-up
ask students to have a look at the pictures and
vocabulary thinking about which ones they’d most Each group chooses one movie and writes a plot –
like to see and which they’d least like to see. the class awards an Oscar for the best one.
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Pictures
PICTURE 1 PICTURE 2

PICTURE 3 PICTURE 4

PICTURE 5 PICTURE 6
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Movie review

Title of the movie __________________________________________________________________________

Type of movie_______________________________________________________________________________
The main actors ___________________________________________________________________________
What it’s about _____________________________________________________________________________
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What you thought of it _____________________________________________________________________

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CRITICAL THINKING

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EB LO B
W N IA
M W P
O DO O
FR BE C
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© Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2014.

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Originally published as part of the Move Up Intermediate Resource Pack.

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Life Skills / Lesson: Critical Thinking - Movie review