American Rhetoric: Movie Speeches

Kane "Full text, audio and video database of some 80 Hollywood movie speeches, as selected by audiences of American Rhetoric. A new movie speech is added every 2-3 weeks. Included are military movie speeches, sports-oriented movie speeches, forensic movie speeches, and social-political  movie speeches, among others." Thanks to Lesley Graham for suggesting this site.

Posted by on February 05, 2005 at 06:09 PM in Language Work | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

English Trailers

English-trailers.com is a really neat site which uses movie trailers as the basis for language activities. Each trailer has a summary, a cloze exercise, notes on key vocabulary and a quiz. There are currently 55 trailers listed, which makes a lot of listening practice. If you create an account (free), you can see even more trailers and save your scores. What's more, teachers can monitor their students' performance. Highly recommended.

Posted by on January 28, 2005 at 03:32 PM in Language Work | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Movie Trailers

Glenys Hanson from the Université de Franche-Comté has created a neat series of video listening exercises based on movie trailers. You have to reconstitute the text of the trailer, of which all the letters have been replaced by asterisks. The exercises were produced using Web Rhubarb.

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