Roald Dahl Day - September, 13

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

Roald Dahl

Visit the fantastic Roald Dahl website! You can find an interesting Roald Dahl timeline biography, great quizzes and lesson plans, you can search for information by stories or by characters and a lot of other amazing things.

In 2014 we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well. It is maybe Roald Dahl’s best-known story.  

Below you can read an extract from my presentation about a Cineforum on movies drawn from children's novels.

"Charlie and the chocolate factory" trailer

Let's sing along!  

Augustus Gloop song

Veruca Salt song

Violet Beauregarde Song

 The Oompa Loompa Song 

Students' task

Answer the following questions.

What is the moral of the story? 

Which character did you like the most? Why? 

Invent a new type of sweet for Willy Wonka's factory that has got a particular magical power, describe its features and explain what happens to those who eat it. Choose a friend or a member of your family and explain why you would give your sweet to him/her.

Cineforum: movies taken from British or American novels for children

 

I've always used movies to improve students' listening comprehension, but I've always preferred movies taken from novels. So I have the chance to talk about literature, as well. 

This is a poster about my cineforum I created with Piktochart. You can save you poster as an image, as the following, or you can make it interactive, as you can see clicking on the next link.

Below you can find the above poster, but now it's interactive...

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1237601-create-your-own

Below you can have some more information. This time I used Blendspace.

There are links to the movies' trailers, to some information about the novels they are taken from, to sites about movies or books for EFL students. 

          http://blnds.co/1gXfZtP

 "I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians".
Francis Ford Coppola