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SUBMITTED BY: Raegina Taylor     BORROWED FROM / INSPIRED BY: One night watching Mr. Bean     EDITED BY: Fiona Steele

Back to School, Mr. Bean

GRAMMAR: Review - grade 3     DATE ADDED: 09-17-07

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 35-50 min.
 
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Brief Outline: Students watch an episode of Mr. Bean and use this as a way to access both culture and recent grammar points.

 

Materials Needed:

  • Flashcards to help explain Mr Bean (optional)
  • Back to School Mr. Bean DVD - you can rent the DVD from your local video store; it’s on disk 3.

 

Detailed Explanation:

  1. Before:
    • Talk about who Mr. Bean is, the style of his films - laugh track, no words, from England, etc.
    • Use flash cards to explain.
  2. During:
    • Stop the video at appropriate stop place to talk about what just happened. As specific students questions like ‘What did Mr. Bean do?’ etc
    • Procedures in playing the video:
      • Play from start to calligraphy scene
      • Pause to point out car and car lock, army men
      • Start 16.09 (put on subtitles) or view two times
      • What is bow?
      • Play 21.28 to end
      • Was Mr. Bean sad at the end of the film?
    • Students work in groups to put the verbs in the right place and mixed up sentences in order according to films events.
    • Get students to fill out the follow up side of the worksheet
    • Discuss as a class the answers to the sheet
  3. After:
    • Students work in groups to put the verbs in the right place and mixed up sentences in order according to films events
    • Get students to fill out the follow up side of the worksheet
    • Discuss as a class the answers to the sheet:
      • He PARKED his car in a bad place.
      • He PUSHED a car down the mountain.
      • He TALKED to the army men.
      • The army men SAID hello.
      • He LOOKED at pictures.
      • He STOOD in front of a man.
      • Mr. Bean was SCARED of the Judo teacher.
      • Mr. Bean BOUGHT a cake.
      • His car was RUN OVER by an army truck.
      • The car lock MADE him HAPPY.

 

Variations and Options:

  • You can just make this a revision and use the ordered side.

 

Cautions:

  • Make sure you edit out the parts you don’t think students should see.
  • This lesson takes a bit of viewing preparation. I used my computer hooked up to a projector which was easier to navigate than a DVD player.
 

Comments:

  • (Jan 29, 2012) Anonymous said:
    Agreed. Like the idea but don't think that episode is really appropriate. Isn't this the one with the Pink Panther erection joke??
  • (Apr 8, 2011) Tom said: This episode is perhaps a little risque for the students, I'd advise using a different episode (any other episode is fine)

  

 

 

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