As a warm-up activity, ask students to think of their (1) all-time favourite movie (2) most favourite TV series and (3) most favourite game
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Explain that the focus of the lesson is analysing media reviews (focusing on organisation and the usage of language in media reviews)
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Explain that there are different kinds of movie review platforms. Some examples:
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Only reviews from critics: (https://www.nytimes.com/reviews/movies)
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Audience reviews: (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/reviews?ref_=tt_urv)
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Movie discussion forum:
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In pairs, students find movie review websites and indicate the types of the review platforms [handout ]
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Materials/steps: Analysing how people write media reviews
Getting an overview of language use in media reviews. Students analyse what people write in a media review.
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Students go to wordandphrase.info, copy some reviews (of either a movie or a game), and paste them onto the search box. Then click ‘SEE LISTS’.
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In the [handout], students categorise the words in the word frequency list [See example]
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Analysing media reviews organisations.
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Give the [handout] to students
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In pairs, students analyse the organisations of the model media review (e.g. plot summary, evaluation, and some background information) And can you find the common sequence they appear in the reviews?
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Students then share their answers/opinions with classmates
Give students an opportunity to ask questions