Lesson topic: The Peculiarity of Mr Blot’s Academy

Author: Jadwiga Mariolla Jonas

Educational level:  primary school, 4th grade

Time: 45 minutes (plus film viewing)

Learning outcomes:

• Improving the skills in understanding culture-based creations such as films, comprehension of movie images (in this case: putting the events in chronological order, expressing one’s own opinions and justifying them on the basis of images);
• Igniting students’ imagination by intersemiotic translation (picture – word);
• Enriching the student’s vocabulary;
• Developing the ability of working in a group and group communication (here among others: work organisation, responsibility for the given task, negotiation, cooperation).

Work methods: mini lecture, questions and answers, “brain-storming”, mind map, appraisal and argumentation, intersemiotic translation (image – word)