1. Download the file in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and make photocopies for students.

2. Enter the webpage and click C+P in order to print the template.

3. Make copies for students and tell them they’ re going to work as if they were professionals sine they will use the ‘official’ formats to write a script.

4. Distribute the worksheet and invite students to work in groups of 3.

5. This story has six scenes so invite students to discuss what the story might be. Monitor the activity.

6. Ask students to start working on the scene heading and action lines by writing a draft.

7. This activity is divided into 2 parts, this is the first one so make sure you give students more time to concentrate on the discussion and writing.

8. Visit each group and read what they are writing, as a draft make corrections and suggestions.

9. This is the second part of the activity, so tell students to continue working in the same groups.

10. After students wrote scene heading and action lines, it is time to write some dialogues.

11. Ask students to discuss briefly what the dialogues might be about and write simple lines.

12. Offer help as needed and monitor they are working as a group.

13. Invite groups of students to share their dialogues by reading them to the class.

1. Download the files in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and make photocopies for students.

2. Tell students they have been practicing with many silent films different skills and now they are going to work with a film produced by an English class like theirs.

3. Ask students what they may need in order to film a silent movie in the classroom, suggest them to make a list.

4. Ask students to work in groups of three and show the title of the movie, “The first date”.

5. Discuss with students what they expect from a first date and what possible things could go wrong.

6. Play the video and recommend students pay attention to body language, gestures, and facial expressions.

7. Ask students what they think about the video.

8. Invite some volunteers to act out some scenes, encourage students to be enthusiastic and participative.

9. Play the video and have two pairs of students imitating the actors in the movie.

10. Make everybody participate and have the class give recommendations and suggestions.

11. Ask students to work in groups of three. They can stay with the same group as in the previous activity or form a new team.

12. Distribute the worksheet and tell students they are going to draw in three scenes or parts of the movie they watched in the previous activity ‘The First Date’.

13. Go over the template with students (it is in Spanish, however, guide them through it), and ask them to organize the activity in their teams. They do not have to do anything complicated or elaborated but something short and simple

14. Invite groups to show their stories. If possible, display the worksheets in the classroom and invite the class to read them and give their opinions.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video suggested and download the files in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and make photocopies for students.

2. Tell students they have been practicing with many silent films different skills and now they are going to work with a film produced by an English class like theirs. This is the second film produced by the same class in an earlier session.

3. Ask students how powerful body language needs to be so it can project and impact the audience.

4. Ask students which actor can impact audiences with his/her performance using body language only or just a few words to go with it.

5. Ask students to work in groups of three and show the title of the movie, “Going up, down or crazy?”.

6. Play the video and recommend students to pay attention to the body language, gestures, and facial expressions.

7. Ask students what they think about the video.

8. Invite some volunteers to act out some scenes, encourage students to be enthusiastic and participative.

9. Play the video and have two pairs of students imitating the actors in the movie.

10. Make everybody participate and have the class give recommendations and suggestions.

11. Ask students to work in groups of three. They can stay with the same group as in the previous activity or form a new team.

12. Distribute the worksheet and tell students they are going to draw in three scenes, or parts the movie they watched in the previous activity ‘Going up, down, or crazy’?

13. Go over the template with students and ask them to organize the activity in their teams. They do not have to do anything complicated or elaborate but writing short and simple dialogues for the silent movie they just watched.

14. Monitor the activity and offer help as needed.

15. Invite groups to show their stories. If possible, display the worksheets in the classroom and invite the class to read them and give their opinions.