UA-59956679-1

Agentes Secretos, Assassin’s Creed, and My First MovieTalk

Published by SraSpanglish on

I was just innocently searching for videos to give my students a feel for Sainte Chapelle, one of the heroes’ destinations in Agentes Secretos, when I happened upon one of their favorite games! (The students’–not the protagonists’…)

Pokemon or no, my babies this year are big into video games, and Assassin’s Creed happens to be one of them. It’s not necessarily this incarnation of the game, but I’m excited to have a hook, even beyond the book they’re already totally into. (Seriously–everything is about guapo/superguapo in our class!)
So I wanted to show them a 360 view of this landmark, but I also wanted to use the target language. What a perfect opportunity for a MovieTalk!
Now there is a lot of…extra..exploration in this video, so I think we’ll probably start around 2:30 and play on double speed, so the whole thing should take under 5 minutes.

Language

If I learned nothing else from #iFLT16, I learned that I must be extremely selective with the vocabulary I use in a story or MovieTalk or PQA. So I know I need

  1. a target structure to use over and over and
  2. familiar vocabulary for the rest

The target structure for this one was easy, as va was already next on my list of essential verbs so students could start talking about their product plans. Since I’ve been highlighting two verbs every unit and keeping a few active vocabulary words on the board for each too, we also have a lot to work with going in!

So based on the video–and the cognates I can establish meaning for just by writing them on the board–here’s what I have to work with:

Familiar verbs:

  • es
  • está
  • quiere
  • puede
  • ver
  • bajar
  • subir
  • hay
 New vocabulary:

  • puerta
  • ventana
  • asesino
  • lámpara
    de araña


We’ll review the familiar words quickly and use some gestures (and doodles for the chandelier) to establish those words, and away we’ll go with the questions!

Questions

So I scripted some questions for as much as I could think of, working in some yes/no questions with the correct answer last (especially where I might forget the right answer–I’m not even 100% sure they’ll know his name is Arno.) I also made it a point to add the timestamp for time sensitive questions. 
  1. ¿Qué videojuego es esto?
    ¿Es Skyrim? ¿Es Assassin’s Creed?
  2. ¿Quién es el protagonista? 
    ¿Es Geralt? ¿Es Arno?
  3. ¿Dónde está Arno?
    ¿Está en Barcelona? ¿Está en París?
  4. ¿Qué año es?
    ¿Es 1937? ¿Es 1789?
  5. ¿Adónde va Arno?
    ¿Va a un café? ¿Va a un museo? ¿Va a un palacio? ¿Va a una catedral?
  6. (2:50) ¿Cómo va en la catedral?
    ¿Va por la puerta? ¿Va por el balcón?
  7. ¿Qué quiere Arno? ¿Quiere la Lanza del Destino? 
  8. (3:05) ¿Qué puede Arno ver?
    ¿Puede ver la catedral? ¿Puede ver París?
  9. ¿Adónde va Arno?
    ¿Va arriba? ¿Va en la catedral?
  10. ¿Qué ve Arno?
    ¿Ve los asesinos? ¿Ve una ventana grande?
  11. (4:00) ¿Adónde va Arno? ¿Va abajo o arriba?
  12.  ¿Cómo va Arno a la ventana?
    ¿Por bajar del balcón? ¿Por subir en la pared?
  13. (5:00) ¿Adónde va Arno? ¿Va por la ventana o por una puerta?
  14. ¿Arno puede ver los asesinos en la puerta?
  15. ¿Sainte Chapelle es una catedral pequeña?
  16. (5:15) ¿Adónde va Arno?
    ¿Va al balcón? ¿Va a la lámpara de araña?
  17. ¿Cuántas lámparas usa Arno?
    ¿Tres? ¿Cuatro? ¿Cinco?
  18. (6:00) ¿Qué puede Arno ver?
    ¿Puede ver París? ¿Puede ver la catedral?
  19. ¿Arno va abajo o arriba?

  20. (7:20) ¿Puede ver las columnas?
  21. ¿Cuántas columnas hay?
  22. (8:00) ¿Adónde va Arno?
    ¿Va por la puerta? ¿Va  afuera? ¿Va arriba?
  23. ¿Qué puede Arno ver?

I’m considering going back and adding these questions in as Vibby comments, too, so the (anxiously) visual learners like myself feel a little more grounded as they follow along, but we’ll see how it goes!

Categories: CInovelPDtechnology
Tags:

SraSpanglish

Laura Sexton is a passion-driven, project-based language educator in Gastonia, North Carolina. She loves sharing Ideas for integrating Project-Based Learning in the world language classroom, including example projects, lessons, assessment tips, driving questions, and reflection.

Related Posts

activism

Spanish 1 as Connections 101

"A thread is a clear connection between a main theme and every conversation that follows." Matthew R. Kay, Not Light, but Fire. Chapter 3 set me off in a timely tangent, preparing for teaching in the time of Corona. What thread would tie my Spanish 1 courses together? What worthy theme would logically, and naturally, relate to whatever we learn--to the deeper purpose of even LEARNING a language? I brainstormed a list of about 11 questions that I thought could really matter, really connect the whole experience. But I came back to one and brainstormed some more...

PBL

PBLL Web-shops

Aside from the in-home convenience and the plethora of topics we got to explore in our 10 hours together, here are a few other things I LOVED about finally setting up a PBLL workshop webinar...

listening

Student Instagram Videos

I have been making videos with Adobe Spark with photos I just happened to have. Those have GOT to be getting boring, kitties and puppies or no. I want to entice more students to engage with this extra practice, and how better to do it than with their peers and THEMSELVES?