http://www.digitalplay.info/blog/2010/07/02/total-eclipse-team-edward-or-team-jacob/
Level: Intermediate+
Location: Connected classroom
Skills Focus: Reading/ Watching/ Speaking
Video: 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive
If you teach teen girls and you haven’t heard of Twilight, no scratch that, if you have been living on planet Earth and you haven’t heard of Twilight then get with it. This teen phenomenon that has swept the world is due to release its third film installment ‘Eclipse’. To mark this momentous occasion in many a fans diary Digital Blog brings you a couple of fun video activities with a fun ‘game’ look and feel.
Preparation
- Write on the board “Are you team Edward or team Jacob?” on the board.
- Elicit an answer and brainstorm the titles of the books/ characters/ any of the plot details/ relationship with Bella Jacob & Edward.
- Decide which of the two videos you’ll watch below (or which order if you are going to do both.
- Tell the class they are going to watch some videos of a new ‘Eclipse’ game and they have to predict what the characters say.
- Connect to this page and use the videos and letterscript below (double clicking on the videos will take you directly to the youtube site).
Play
- Play the video.
- Learners copy and expand on the letterscript.
- Repeat as necessary.
Team Edward video
After your learners have watched the video ask them to expand on the ‘letter script’ below. Each letter represents the first letter of a word and the symbols and numbers also represent a word. Punctuation is punctuation.
e.g. IW♥2BAV = I would love to be a vampire.
Letterscript
Team Jacob video
After your learners have watched the video ask them to expand on the ‘letter script’ below. Each letter represents the first letter of a word and the symbols and numbers also represent a word. Punctuation is punctuation.
e.g. IW♥2BAW = I would love to be a werewolf.
Letterscript
During both of the videos above there are moments when you are asked to make a choice between two decisions. It’s a nice activity to pause the video at these points and ask the class which option they would choose and why. You can then continue playing the video.
NOTE
You could always judge what your learners choose to expand their letters to on individual merit. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t be allowed to stray from the script if what they produce contains interesting language.