ENGLISH PROJECTENGLISH PROJECT IN SKOUTARI’S LYCEUMIN SKOUTARI’S LYCEUM

SCHOOL YEAR 2012-2013

TOPIC:TOPIC:“BRITISH AND AMERICAN CINEMA:FROM DOCUMENTARIES TO CARTOONS”

MAIN AIMS

• COLLABORATION AMONG STUDENTS AND CO-OPERATION BETWEEN TEACHER AND STUDENTS

• RESEARCH

• PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION OF THEIR WORK

OBJECTIVES

• PROMOTION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE USE

• ACTIVATE READING AND WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH

• EMPLOY RESEARCE SKILLS

• CO-OPERATION MANNERS IN ACTION

INITIAL THOUGHTS

• STUDENTS’ BACKROUND

• CHOOSING THE TOPIC

• WRITING IN ENGLISH

• SEPARATING THE GROUPS

• CHOOSING MOVIE KINDS

DURING THE PROJECT

• MOVIES’ CHOICE • MOVIE KINDS’ HISTORICAL BACKROUND• MOVIE VIEWING• MOVIE COMMENTS• POWER POINT

EXPECTED DIFICCULTIES

• FORMING GROUPS

• UNEQUALITY IN LANGUAGE SKILLS

• UNWILLINGNESS TO WORK

• NOT COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF POWER POINT

UNEXPECTED DIFFICULTIES

• NOT COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF POWER POINT

• HUGE AMOUNT OF DATA, NOT ALL WOULD BE USED

• NOT MUCH AUTHENTIC WRITING

• MEETING AFTER SCHOOL HOURS

• NOT AVAILABLE COMPUTER LAB EVERY WEEK

CONCLUSIONS

• SUPERVISING GROUPS IS HELPFUL TO THE TEACHER

• GETTING TO KNOW STUDENTS BETTER AND MORE PERSONALLY

• ACQUISITION OF WRITING AND READING SKILLS THAT WILL BE NEEDED

• WORKING IN GROUPS WIIL BE USEFUL IN STUDENT’S LIFE

GROUP AGROUP ADOCUMENTARY FILM

• There are many categories of documentaries which try to prove an aspect of reality.

Categories: 1)Historical

2)Social

3)Economical

4)With animals

Ancient Aliens is an American television series that premiered on April 20, 2010 on the

History channel. Produced by Prometheus Entertainment. We are going to discuss

some episodes. Also we mentioned about The Lost Gods.

• Ancient aliens:• Temples of Gold

• Angel And Demons

• The Evidence

• Lost Gods about:• The Egyptians • The Greeks • The Romans • The Maya • The Celts

GROUP BGROUP BACTION MOVIES

ACTION MOVIESa) HISTORICAL BACKROUND OF ACTION

MOVIES

b) NOTES ABOUT THE MAIN PLOT OF THE MOVIES

c) CONCLUSION

GROUP CGROUP C

Adventure Movies

Movies:Pirates Of CaribbeanIron ManThe Dark KnightX-Men: First Class

The crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow, from Davy Jones’s Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by

Cutler Beckett and Davy Jones, who plan to extinguish piracy.

IRON MAN

When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil.

GROUP DGROUP DSOMETHING ABOUT

CARTOON’S HISTORY• A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has

changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works. An artist who creates cartoons is called a cartoonist.

• Walt Disney was born on December 5th, 1901, in Chicago and died on December 15th, 1966, in California L.A.

• He was an American movie producer, director, scriptwriter and cartoon designer.• Cartoons are movies in which drawn figures star instead of actors. The heroes are usually

animals or fictional creatures with funny faces that speak and react as if they were human beings. The creation of cartoons as well as other movies is based on metaisthima.

• At first the scenes of the cartoon movie were drawn separately. The first drawings were put on transparencies and then drawn to create a moving cartoon hero. Every drawing was slightly different from the next one. Then all drawings were photographed on the row and so the whole film was made. When the film was shown the figures looked like they were really moving.

• The first cartoons’ film was shot by S. Blakton in 1907, but Walt Disney’s movies were real works of art.

THESE ARE THE CARTOONS WE DEALED WITH:

1.Inspector Gadget 2.Raining Meatballs 3.Barbie4.Mickey Mouse 5.Ratatouille

HERE ARE SOME USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT OUR WORK:

• The cartoons are movies that enjoy young and older people as well. Through cartoons we watch technology developing, and new gadgets appearing that are very useful to mankind. We also follow the development of new methods of preventing crime through the use of these gadgets. Moreover, family issues are touched upon, for example the fact that babies are ‘delivered’ by a stork in some cartoons. This shows that the heroes want to continue behaving in an innocent way towards kids. However in ‘Barbie’ series we have a wedding taking place but not children being born. Except for that, cartoons often show the customs and the culture of a people, its traditions and habits. In every cartoon friendship plays an extremely important role in the relationships of the heroes; pets are always depicted as the hero’s best friend as well. The world sees down on less bright heroes and tries to lessen their confidence and smartness.

• The innocent and less evil heroes are the ones that always win. • There is always a pet that befriends the heroes.

THANK YOU!THANK YOU!