The Snowman How to Use the Story with the DVD

The Snowman -How to use the story with the DVD (available at a very reasonable price from a number of supermarkets).

The basic idea is to show the DVD, which (apart from the introduction) has no words, accompanied by a reading of the script. Some confidence and competence in the chosen language is required as the text, although in the present tense, presents some challenges as you need to understand when to pause to allow the film to tell the story. Some ideas:

1.  Introduce key words with the flashcards.

2.  Play flashcard games.

3.  Develop actions for each flashcard. Children repeat the actions whenever they hear the words in the story.

4.  Distribute flashcards. Children wave flashcards when they hear the appropriate words in the story.

5.  For older children you may want to introduce the written word and distribute word cards which the children show as they hear in the story.

6.  When the children have watched the film and listened to the script in the appropriate language several times, they could act out the story as it is being read (first of all with the film and then without the film).

7.  Older children could be given a simplified text, cut up which they then need to put in order. A similar activity could also be carried out using the smartboard or something similar.