This document discusses using the movie "Happy Feet" to teach English. It provides activities for students to complete as they watch the movie, such as filling in blanks in a song lyrics worksheet and putting scenes of the movie in order. After watching, students would discuss the moral of the story in small groups, bringing up ideas around pollution, animal extinction, and accepting differences. The goal is for learning to be fun through using a story and for students to discuss broader lessons taught in the movie.

1. Teaching English
Through A Movie
Asma Chouchane Satchell
IH Muscat, Oman

2. Teaching English Through A Movie

3. Learning should be fun. You can nourish morals, good manners , values and
ethics through education, through a good laugh or a moving story. Going
beyond words, going beyond the narrow-view of education is what I believe in.
Teaching English Through A
Movie

4. •Read these sentences about the movie and decide if each sentence is true or false. Write ‘T’ for true
or ‘F’ for false beside each sentence.
1.Every penguin sings a unique song called a "heart song" to attract a mate.
2.The female penguins look after the eggs while the male penguins look for fish.
3.Mumble has brown eyes.
4.Mumble can sing very well.
5.Mumble escapes from some birds.
6.Mumble’s best friend is Gloria.
7.Mumble loves tap dancing.
8.Mumble meets a group of penguins called ‘the small penguins’.
9.Mumble learns to sing.
10.Gloria is in love with Mumble.
11.Gloria sings while Mumble is tap dancing.
12.Aliens captured Mumble.
13.The penguins try to communicate to the humans that they are overfishing.
14.Mumble and Gloria have two children.
Teaching English Through A
Movie
Gist Activity

5. •Listen to the song and fill in the missing words.
•Can anybody find me somebody to...Love
Ohh Ohh Oh Ho
Each ________I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my _______
(Take a look at yourself) Take a look in the _______and cry (in the mirror)
Lord what you're doing to me
I ________ all my years in believing ______
I just can't get no relief Lord
Somebody (somebody, somebody) ooh somebody
Can anybody ______ me
somebody to ______?
•
(She works hard)
•Every day (every day) Oh I try and I try and I try
But everybody ______ to put me down
______ say, they say I'm goin' ______
They say I got a lot of water in my ______
Got no common sense
I _____nobody ______to believe in
yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Teaching English Through A
Movie
Listening Activity

6. Teaching English Through A Movie
Summarizing Activity
Put the scenes in order of the movie and make a sentence to describe each scene.

7. Teaching English Through A
Movie
Discussion Activity
Students would be divided in small groups to discuss the movie.
They would try to figure out the moral of the story.
Ideas such as pollution and animal extinction should be raised. Solutions to
this phenomenon should be elaborated.
Ideas such as tolerance and accepting differences should be also shed
light upon. Mumble was a different penguin but his difference saved his
fellow species.
At the end of the movie take a little time to learn to tap dance with your
students using the tutorial included in the DVD. I would have loved to have
tried it with my students, but in this part of the world it is not PC. Besides I
am really bad at dance. Like Mumble with singing, tap dancing is
something I can not do, but I love teaching, and hope one day that will make
a difference somewhere on this earth.
Regards.
Asma Chouchane Satchell

8. Teaching English
Through A Movie
Asma Chouchane Satchell
IH Muscat, Oman