Unit 3

Lesson 1

• In your house, have a look at the different characters in the pictures. They will change every 5 seconds. Take as many notes as you can and try to figure out the title of the unit: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (2 words, 19 letters FANTASTIC CHARACTERS)

• Now, look at the pictures again. What are they?

-> Each house will receive 2 of the pictures and make a list of everything they see. Attributes, colours, description, emotions, ... 

Then, we'll put all the words on the board and you'll have to describe them: to do so, you'll write the longest sentence you can. Careful, it needs to make sense and respect the rules of a sentence (no overuse of commas or colons)

To help you, do the worksheets below. 

Once your sentence has been written, present it to the class. The best house wins. 

• Then, let's create a mind map with every word that comes to mind concerning this unit. To help you, find out what makes a character fantastic: start with categories and then offer words for the different categories.

Lesson 2

• Have a look at the two document below: 

• Then have a look at the picture below. 

• Each house will be in charge of one of the 4 parts. Make a list of all the information in a table. 

Then, work on how to express your hypothesis (maybe, perhaps, might,...) and capacities (can, to be able to,...)

Lesson 3

• Running dictation to write the full description of the poster.

Lesson 4

Watch the trailer

• Compare the poster and the trailer. What information did you learn that wasn't in the poster? What is the goal of the poster? 

Then fill in the documents below.

• Make a list of all the information that you need on a poster

In pairs, watch the second trailer below and start working on the poster for this movie using all the information you've written down before. 

Lesson 5

• Monsters and Villains: what is the difference between the two?

Exemples of different monsters and different villains in books and movies. 

• What are the characteristics of a good villain? 

Quiz: Which villain could you play?

• Vocab Treasure Hunt: in your house, you have 5 minutes to find out 15 words pertaining to a monster and 15 words pertaining to a villain.

Create your master villain: 

• Choose a name
• Choose a special ability
• Choose a weapon 
• Choose a weakness
• Build your villain's ID card

Lesson 6

• What is a hero?

Read the text with Aslan: what elements can you associate with a hero?

What makes someone a hero?

• Give some examples of different heroes in literature and movies

Create your own hero:

• Choose a name
• Choose a special ability
• Choose a weapon 
• Choose a weakness
• Build your hero's ID card

Lesson 7

• Final Task: pick a card from the villain's stack and your partner will pick one from the hero's one and then :

Present your character 

Battle one another: what does the villain want? how does the hero stop him? who wins in the end?