Creating Movie Posters, an EFL activity


Quite often we find that most students feel Reading and Writing a boring class, and it is if we cannot come up with ways to make it entertaining for them. One way to do it is by giving the whole thing a "sense of purpose: we read and then we write because we are going to do something with it. 
Here is an idea (that is not mine, BTW). This activity is about creating movie posters based on the stories your students are reading. Of course you need stories that have not been translated into movies but have the potential. 
Tell your students that by the time they finish reading this or that story they have to create a movie poster based on that particular tale. They have to do the casting that is looking for the actors that are right for the roles in the story. They have to explain those decisions in an exposition to the class and next they must elaborate the art concept for the movie poster which should include one of those catchy sentences to hook the audience.
The beautiful posters included here correspond to Chemical Secret by Time Vicary, The Wall of Darkness and The Secret by Arthur C. Clarke, and Antonio by Luis Bermudes, and were designed by middle teen students of one of my EFL Reading and Writing classes. There are of course Grammar inconsistencies here and there, but let's not forget these kids were still mid way to learn English.
                                                                                                                                                                     

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