26. Lingua It: (7) Free Extra-Curricular Activities (Cont.)
Film
Each week at Lingua-It there would be a free showing of a film with subtitles. These ranged from old black and white to modern-day classics, and Christian would introduce them with a short preface. The idea of showing a film is excellent, because it can function as a learning tool. Yet, for the three times that I attended, there were so few students that one could count them on one hand and still have fingers left over. Interesting enough, the Università per Stranieri, Perugia [but see my warning about attending this school in blogs 4 - 6, 9,10!] also showed films on Thursdays and Fridays, and they were packed.
Perhaps the films should be made part of the lessons leading up to the showing. If the purpose of showing the film is for more than just entertainment, then there certainly needs to be some sort of integrated response. For a school that prides itself in teaching everyday Italian, it would seem to me that these films would be a good source of such language. Scuola Leonardo did not show films [2005], but they offered other free activities that were interesting and geared to enhance our knowledge of Tuscany and our understanding of Italian. We had a lecture on the contradas followed by a visit to a contrada; we had a lecture on Tuscan food; and for the pièce de resistance we had an afternoon with a drama teacher who made us act out the different sounds of the language! We laughed a lot and we learnt a lot from these extracurricular activities.
Each week at Lingua-It there would be a free showing of a film with subtitles. These ranged from old black and white to modern-day classics, and Christian would introduce them with a short preface. The idea of showing a film is excellent, because it can function as a learning tool. Yet, for the three times that I attended, there were so few students that one could count them on one hand and still have fingers left over. Interesting enough, the Università per Stranieri, Perugia [but see my warning about attending this school in blogs 4 - 6, 9,10!] also showed films on Thursdays and Fridays, and they were packed.
Perhaps the films should be made part of the lessons leading up to the showing. If the purpose of showing the film is for more than just entertainment, then there certainly needs to be some sort of integrated response. For a school that prides itself in teaching everyday Italian, it would seem to me that these films would be a good source of such language. Scuola Leonardo did not show films [2005], but they offered other free activities that were interesting and geared to enhance our knowledge of Tuscany and our understanding of Italian. We had a lecture on the contradas followed by a visit to a contrada; we had a lecture on Tuscan food; and for the pièce de resistance we had an afternoon with a drama teacher who made us act out the different sounds of the language! We laughed a lot and we learnt a lot from these extracurricular activities.
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