Horror Project

Create a horror story with VIDEO, PODCAST, POWERPOINT OR TEXT.

Before watching 
Vocabulary:  Students brainstorm in groups of 3 or 4 typical horror elements in a film
It's a timed competition (2 minutes) and the winner gets a candy
Now students are asked to look for more horror elements in the film they are about to watch

After watching
1. Vocabulary : Students add new horror elements and hand in the list to the teacher.
Winning team with more words gets a candy prize and top mark.
Evaluation: number of items, writing accuracy.

2. Does Sleepy Hollow really exist?: A treasure hunt
- Where is Sleepy Hollow? Include a map from Google Maps
- How many people live there?
- Find some pictures of the village and the cemetery
- What is the legend of Sleepy Hollow originally?
- Who wrote the story and when?
- What are the differences between the plot of the story and the film? 

LINKS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow,_New_York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow

Evaluation
Answering questions with accuracy and creative presentation

Basic competences
Communicative: Practise audiovisual and linguistic competences for a communicative, real-life purpose
Digital: Use of Digital video editing and publishing on blogs. Alternatively, used podcasting, powerpoint or a text post on the personal space with pictures.
Autonomy: Students work in groups and create the videos as homework, supported by guidelines provided.
Learning to learn: discuss and evaluate part of the objectives of the project

Area Contents
Linguistic
Share and learn new vocabulary related with horror
Introduce Grammar
Literary & Audiovisual
Watch the adaption of a classic American tale, Sleepy Hollow to model.
Create a horror story with audio, audiovisual or text support

Assessment
Vocabulary
peer assessment
self-assessment

Halloween is a classic in the English class. This time our 15 y.o  students created video horror stories, after watching a horror movie, discussing the basic elements of a good horror story and analyzing the audiovisual and linguistic elements needed.
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