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Teaching Materials on Kung Fu Panda
Candy Cheng
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Teaching Materials on Kung Fu Panda
Target level of students
The tasks are designed for Primary Three students. The academic levels of most of the students are average and some are above average. After watching the movie with English subtitles, students are given three tasks on two generic skills - writing and speaking.
Details of the film
The title of the firm is Kung fu Panda which was started to produce in 2004 and was released in 2008. Directors of the film are Mark Osborne and John Stevenson and the language of the film is English.
Story of the film
Po, a panda who is a kung fu fanatic, lives with his father who opens a noodle restaurant. Although his father wants Po to take over his restaurant, Po wants to try something else. One day, Po accidently becomes the Dragon Warrior who is supposed to be very powerful and able to defeat Tai Lung who will escape from the prison. The Furious Five who are the students of Shifu and including Shifu does not believe he can be the Dragon Warrior. However, Po does not give up and later is trained by Shifu in the mountains which makes him become stronger and stronger and finally defeats Tai Lung. Rationale of choosing the film
The movies are popular among primary students as it is an animated movie. The characters are so popular in Hong Kong even when children go to McDonald to buy a package, they can have a toy of one of those characters. The film is easy to understand as there is a strong separation of good and bad characters and each character has their own characteristics. There is also a moral message that we can tell students through the film is that we should not judge others by their outlooks, just like judging Po cannot be the Dragon Warrior because he is a fat, clumsy panda.
Teaching steps
After watching the movie the previous lesson, students have to do the writing task. In order to warm up and help students to review the story, teacher first writes a short summary of the movie which includes opening, events happened in the story and the closing, and then teacher cuts those paragraphs into 5 or 6 stripes. Four students will be in a group to work out the order of the story. After this activity, students will be clearer of the story and at the same time vocabularies and phrases are provided for them to work on the coming writing task. After disturbing the worksheets (Appendix 1) to students, teacher will analyze the letter with students; help them brainstorm what they should write in the reply letter. Take the question of what the Dragon Warrior looks like as an example, teacher can tell students that they can write about the height of the Dragon Warrior, the clothing that he wears and whether he is fat or thin, etc. As this writing task is in the context of letter, teacher should also remind students the proper format of a letter.
After getting familiar on how to describe a character, students will be asked to think about the character that they like most, they do not like most, the part of the story that they like most and the reasons. They have to draw pictures and write a few sentences about it (Appendix 2), then have a short presentation of five minutes in front of the class. Students presentations will take place during the last 15 minutes of one weeks English lessons.The last task is a writing task in which students have to use their own imagination and decide their own stories of Po (the panda). This can be quite challenging as students have to think of the sentences by themselves. Therefore, before students start the writing task, teacher can first show a sample of a new story, explain how the story is organized by using first second third and finally and also the pictures of original characters, new characters, original places and new places.
Assessment
For the writing task 1, students will be assessed according to an analytic scoring rubric (Appendix 4). There will be four domain score and three perspectives content, organization and language of students writing of the reply letter will be assessed.
For the writing task 2, again an analytic scoring rubric (Appendix 6) will be used to assess students writing of their own story. However, there will only two focus content and language because students are only required to write a few sentences on their new story, therefore, how students organize the passage will not be assessed. But students creativity in designing their own story of Kung fu Panda will be taken into account as they need to use their imagination during the design of the new story.
For the speaking task 1, after finishing the worksheet, students have to represent in front of the class, sharing the character that they like most, they do not like most, the part of the story that they like most and the reasons. Students will receive a self-assessment sheet (Appendix 5) and assess themselves according to their performance during the presentation. Four main areas will be assessed. The first one is voice, including appropriate volume, fluency, pronunciation and intonation. The second one is whether students themselves have eye-contact with the audience, or just look at their own worksheets during the presentations and whether they have good timing and able to present all their ideas in five minutes. The third one is language, whether they are aware that they have made a lot of grammatical mistakes and whether they are able to self-correct their own mistakes. For the last one, the content of the presentation, whether students think they have provided relevant ideas will be assessed.Appendix 1: Writing task 1
Name: _____________________ ( )
Marks: _________________
Class: P. 3 ______
Date: __________________
A. Now, you are Tigress (One of the Furious Five). One of your friend, Bunny who lives far away from you wrote a letter to you. Here is the letter. Read it carefully.
10th April, 09
Dear Tigress,
How are you? I miss you very much. Sorry for not writing
to you for so long. Hows your kung fu training?
I have heard from others that someone was chosen to be the
Dragon Warrior by Master Oogway in last weeks tournament.
Is it true? Can you tell me more about the Dragon Warrior?
I also heard that Tai Lung had escaped from prison. I am so
worried about you. Do you think the Dragon Warrior is able to
defeat Tai Lung and protect the Valley? No matter what, I am
confident in you, your kung fu is the best!!
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Love,
Bunny
Help Tigress to reply Bunnys letter in about 60 words. The following questions may help you.
1. Is it true that someone was chosen to be the Dragon Warrior by Master Oogway in last weeks tournament?
2. What is the name of the Dragon Warrior?
3. How does he look like?
4. What is he doing now?
5. Do you think the Dragon Warrior is able to defeat Tai Lung and protect the Valley?
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_______________________Appendix 2: Speaking task 1
Name: _____________________ ( )
Date: __________________
Class: P. 3 ______
A. Write down your favorite character and draw his picture in the box. Then
My sharing of the movie.
The character that I like most is _______________________________
because________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The character that I do not like most is______________________________
because________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The part of the story that I like best is
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Appendix 3: Writing task 2
Name: _____________________ ( )
Marks: _________________
Class: P. 3 ______
Date: __________________
B. Now, you are the director of the movie Kung fu Panda. Design a different story for Po.
Then draw pictures in four boxes to show the original characters, new characters, original places and new places.
My own story of Kung fu Panda
New name of my story: ___________________________________________
My own story is about ___________________________________________________ .
First, ______________________________________________________________________ Second,____________________________________________________________________
Third,________________________________________________________
Finally,_______________________________________________________
Original characters:
_________________________________
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New characters that I create:
___________________________________
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Original places:
_________________________________
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New places that I create:
_________________________________
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Appendix 4: Analytic Scoring Rubric for writing task 1 (replying letter)Domain scoreContentOrganizationLanguage
4 Have a rich content
Able to answer all the questions required with sufficient details and examples Format of the letter, including date, receiver and senders name is all correct.
Have a clear and appropriate greeting and ending.
Each section is linked tightly, well-organized. No grammatical errors.
Complex and simple sentences are used.
Uses a rich and a variety of vocabularies.
3 Have a sufficient content
Able to answer all the questions required with reasonable details and examples Format of the letter, including date, receiver and senders name is correct with little mistakes.
Have appropriate greeting and ending.
Each section is generally linked. A few grammatical errors.
Simple sentences are used.
Uses simple vocabularies but sufficient.
2 Some of the ideas are given.
Able to answer some of the questions required with limited details.
Some mistakes for the format of the letter,
Mistakes are found in greeting or ending.
Paragraphs are not linked logically. Some grammatical errors.
Simple sentences with minor errors.
Uses limited vocabularies.
1 Limited ideas are given.
Not able to answer the questions.
Format of the letter is all wrong.
Have no greeting or ending.
Paragraphs are poorly linked.
A lot of grammatical errors.
There is an inappropriate use of simple sentences.
Uses repetitive vocabularies.
Appendix 5: Self- assessment worksheet for speaking task 1
Self- assessment worksheet
Name: _____________________ ( )
Date: __________________
Class: P. 3 ______My sharing of the movie.
During the presentation
Voice
(colour the number of stars)
I can speak loudly.
I can speak clearly and fluently.
I have correct pronunciations.
I read with intonation.
Communication strategies
I have good eye-contact with my classmates.
I have good timing.
Language
I dont have much grammatical mistakes.
I am able to self-correct my grammatical mistakes
Content
I provide relevant information and ideas to support my views.
Appendix 6: Analytic Scoring Rubric for writing task 2 (design own story)
Domain scoreContentLanguage
4 Have a rich and creative content
Sufficient sentences are used to elaborate the new story. No grammatical errors.
Complex and simple sentences are used.
Uses a rich and a variety of vocabularies.
3 Have a sufficient content
sentences are used to elaborate the new story. A few grammatical errors.
Simple sentences are used.
Uses simple vocabularies but sufficient.
2 Some of the ideas of the new story are given. Some grammatical errors.
Simple sentences with minor errors.
Uses limited vocabularies.
1 Limited ideas are given.
Not enough elaborations.
A lot of grammatical errors.
There is an inappropriate use of simple sentences.
Uses repetitive vocabularies.
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