Developing Teaching Material for Classroom Interaction in a Movie-Based Course

Movies are widely used among language teachers to teach English today. However, with the exception of transcripts and translations, there are very few movie-specific activity books or textbooks available. In order for a movie-based course to succeed, it is important to engage students in various language activities that can facilitate students’ comprehension of the movie and enhance their language ability. In this paper I’ll examine a variety of tasks that promote effective classroom interaction in a movie-based course, including some classroom tasks developed for the movie About A Boy