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Many of you rely on Movie Talks to tell stories in collaboration with your students. It seems it has become as popular as TPRS stories once were. And now that many of you have tried remote teaching, I am sure you have experience of how to do Movie Talks virtually. I would love to talk with others about their techniques.

So the other day, I wrote out my ideas and sent them to a trusted friend and the following lesson plan is the result. Please take a look to see if you can benefit from any of these ideas and then leave a comment below to tell me what you have found that works.

Can do statement: I can narrate events.

To do a Movie Talk with remote students, you can use the screen share function to share the slides and ask students to work in their “journal” (their composition notebook).

Unmute students.
Rhapsodie pour un pot-au-feu Movie Talk
Show the slides and ask students the questions. Students will use the pictures to try to answer by predicting what happens in the story. (If this doesn’t go well because all of the students are trying to talk at once, you can mute the students and take suggestions in chat.)

Mute students. Watch the video of the story Rhapsodie pour un pot-au-feu — linked in the slides as well.

The last slide has six pictures. The teacher asks the students to take out their journals and number one to six. Then the teacher describes one of the pictures and the students write the corresponding letter.

Unmute students
Rhapsodie pour un pot-au-feu Group Reading
Ask students to read the captions for the pictures out loud to the class.

The last slide has six pictures. Put students in breakout groups of four. The students tell each other what is happening in the pictures and write the descriptions down in their journals. Students prepare for everyone in the group to be able to give the answers. After three minutes, the teacher reunites the group and calls on individual students to volunteer to say what is happening in each picture.

Students will need to have a copy of the slides to see the pictures while they are in breakout groups. Post the Describing Pictures to Google Classroom. Having them write in their journals while working with their peers, helps them stay focused in breakout rooms.

Rhapsodie pour un pot-au-feu Questions
While this looks like a quiz and the students can see what they get right and wrong, it is a disguised reading activity. The purpose of having the questions is to hold the student accountable for reading and working to understand the information.

Rhapsodie pour un pot-au-feu Presentational
Show the students the sentences with the verb endings highlighted. Read the sentences to the students. Ask the students to take out their journals and write the sentences paying attention to the verb endings. Check work with the slide that has the answers.

In their journal, students write a paragraph starting with, “La mère veut que la famille soit à table, mais c’est très difficile parce que…,” and ending with, “À la fin, la famille…” Students are to add 5 activities that different family members do. Students can put their answers in this Google Form.