This document outlines the content and structure of an online English course focused on movie genres. The course is designed for students aged 10 to 65 who are interested in both English and movies. It will introduce students to movie vocabulary and teach them how to describe, compare, and differentiate genres, characters, use of lighting/camerawork, and other elements through activities analyzing various films. The course will be divided into sections covering resources, descriptions, comparisons, and requiring students to discuss and provide feedback on each other's work.

1. MOVIE GENRES

2. • Population • Methodology
• Introduction • Resources
• Welcome • Activities
• Objectives • Assessment
• Justification • Contents
• Pedagogical models • Bibliography and
Cybergraphy
MENU

3. • It is addressed to movie lovers from 10 years old to 65
years old.
• The online course is oriented to students that are
interested in learning English and that love movies
POPULATION

4. • Movies are accessible for everybody and everybody want
to see a movie just to entertain themselves. So the course
will develop activities to distinguish among different
genres, also the students will discuss the main issues that
are in movies like characters, use of light or picture etc.
• The activities will be presented in a written way.
INTRODUCTION

5. WELCOME

6. • The program is created to clarify and distinguish between
different movie genres; also they will be able to identify
different movie aspects like context, description of
characters, use of light, pictures, etc.
• The student will be able to handle vocabulary that is
involved in movies, also they will structure clear
sentences to learn how to describe, compare and
differentiate different topics and situations.
OBJETIVES

7. • Education models try to improve the teaching-learning
process in order to standardize an appropriate way of
instruction, therefore there are a lot of models and
paradigms; Nowadays the AVAs (Ambientes Virtuales de
Aprendizaje) are a new model based in the used of virtual
aids that provides students with suitable tools for his
develop on several context like, job market, student life,
and the most important, the real world.
JUSTIFICATION

8. • The Constructivism is based on interchanges between
students and teachers, so I think is the most accurate to
argue, discuss or just make simple comments about the
movies characteristic.
• Conductism also…..
PEDAGOGICAL MODEL

9. • It will be develop by documents as handouts, web pages
and others that provide the student with the accurate
movies vocabulary and also with grammar explanations.
• On the other hand if the student wants to ask questions,
they will be answered in asynchrony via e-mail or by
virtual forums.
METHODOLOGY

10. • It is required that students have Internet access to the
watch movies, to enter web pages as word reference.com,
or esl-kids.lab to get grammar explanations.
RESOURCES

14. • The program will be divided in four sections to develop and
reinforce what the student has seen across the course.
• The first is to give the resources or explanation reference to the
students in order to know the vocabulary and the structure of
descriptions, comparatives and superlatives.
• The second topic will be the Description; it will be develop
with the classic thriller “Rashomon”
• The activity will be analyze and describe the different versions
of a specific event.
• (mapa mental o conceptual)
ACTIVITIES

15. • The third topic will be compare and differentiate; it will be
able to choose among two remakes and with the two original
ones, “Total Recall” and “Clash of Titans”. (instructivo para
bajar las peliculas Cuevana emule vimeo)
• The activity will be focused on compare the versions and
identify the differences between them.
• The fourth will include the last ones because the student will
have to make a descriptive text about an episode of Rikky Ho.
At the end he have to compare the movie with another one that
he had already see.
ACTIVITIES

16. • As the AVAs model is new it won’t give a grade to
students, because the course is guide to establish a
dialogue between several movie lovers.
• Texts will be correct among each one that participate in
the activity, it means that each one will have access to all
the texts.
• (Criterios básicos evaluativos - evaluar cada trabajo)
ASSESSMENT

17. • First week: course introduction, give them the web references
• Second week: worksheet about the Describing, compare and
differentiate the movie world.
• Third week: First movie, first text.
• Fourth week: corrections and discussion
• Fifth week: Second and third movies, second text.
• Sixth week: corrections and discussion
• Seventh week: Last movie and third text
• Eighth week: Last correction and discussion, last text.
CONTENTS