Friday, April 29, 2022

To Do List for Your Movie Blog

Movie Seminar students must do the following!

1. Make a blog using Google Blogger (tutorial video)

2. Give it an English name, like ... Taro's Movie Blog or Taro's Awesome Movie Blog

3. Write a description, like ... Welcome! This blog introduces movie genres and movie directors for the Movie Seminar.

4. Customize your blog a little. It should look different from other blogs.

5. Make a comment every week on your blog about the latest genre introduced in the seminar.


Compare ...


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Please try to avoid images with watermarks. [透かし（すかし、英語: Watermark）とは、当てた光によって紙の上により明るく（暗い背景の上で反射した光ではより暗く）現れる区別することのできる画像や模様である。透かしのある画像は避けてください。]

Pixabay has free images with no watermarks. There are free images on Google, too, but you may have to search hard to avoid watermarks. Try searching 'no watermark background images'.


The description goes here ...



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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Class #4 - Historical Movies












Slideshow

Some trailers from recent historical movies.

Elvis (2022) trailer; starring Tom Hanks
House of Gucci (2021) trailer; starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) trailer; starring Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen

1917 (2019) - trailer
Judy (2019) - trailer; starring Renee Zellweger; about Judy Garland
Ford v Ferrari (2019) - trailer; starring Matt Damon, Christian Bale
The Aeromauts (2019) - trailer; starring Eddie Redmayne
Rocketman (2019) - trailer; about Elton John

The Favourite (2018) - trailer; starring Ema Stone
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) - trailer; starring Rami Malek
Vice (2018) - trailer; starring Christian Bale, Sam Rockwell, Amy Adams
The 15:17 to Paris (2018) - trailer; directed by Clint Eastwood

Dunkirk (2017) - trailer; directed by Christopher Nolan
Darkest Hour (2017) - trailer; starring Academy Award winner, Gary Oldman
Detroit (2017) - trailer; directed by Kathryn Bigelow
The Post (2017) - trailer; starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks

Silence (2016) - set in 17th Century Japan; directed by Martin Scorsese
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) - about an American WWII soldier and hero who refused to use weapons
Jackie (2016) - about Jackie Kennedy, widow of JFK; played by Natalie Portman
Hidden Figures (2016) - African-American women mathematicians working for NASA in the 60s
The Founder (2016) - the story of Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's

Suffragette (2015) - about the struggle for women's right to vote; starring Carey Mulligan
The Revenant (2015) - based on a true story; a kind of action movie in a historical setting; DiCaprio!
Bridge of Spies (2015) - true spy thriller; Cold War era history, starring Tom Hanks

Selma (2014) trailer
The Imitation Game (2014) trailer
Unbroken (2014) trailer
The Theory of Everything (2014) trailer

12 Years a Slave (2013) trailer
Saving Mr. Banks (2013) trailer
The Wind Rises (2013) trailer
The Butler (2013) trailer
The Dallas Buyers Club (2013) trailer

Argo (2012) trailer
Lincoln (2012) trailer
The King's Speech (2010) trailer

EdPuzzle class code is: cajzagg

Gone With The Wind



About "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
"Gone With the Wind" is a historical film. It may also be called a historical drama or a historical epic. It is a film version of the best-selling book of the same title by Margaret Mitchell. The historical period of this movie is the American Civil War. The actor, Clark Gable, was one of the great leading men in American cinema. The movie won 10 Academy Awards and was extremely popular. It is considered one of the most admired American movies of all time.

Gone With the Wind (film) - Wikipedia article
Gone With the Wind trailer

Watch the Selma trailer and fill in the blanks on the handout.
Selma trailer / PDF Link

Grammar Practice
Conditional Sentences I - statements


🔥 Hot Seat 🔥 today: Akane, Hiroki, Daichi S, Ryusei, Kaito T.

Blog Post
Watch some more clips from the Recent Historical Movies list above and write about one historical movie on your blog. Tell me which clip you watched, and what you think about it. Does it look interesting to you? Why? Do you know anything about the story or the period in history portrayed in the movie? Write 3-5 sentences. You must write on your blog!

To Do List
1) Watch as many Historical Movie trailers as possible (more is better!)
2) Do the EdPuzzle exercise above
3) Do the Selma (2014) video and exercise
4) Do the Grammar Practice; tell Kevin your score
5) Write about a historical movie on your blog
** If you haven't made a blog or you haven't posted about the movie genre Science Fiction yet, please do so. **
** Please customize your blog. **

Next week is a holiday! No class on May 5!

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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Class #3 - Science Fiction


Watch as many Sci Fi trailers below as you can. 


Simple English Wikipedia - Science Fiction
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2001: A Space Odyssey theme song

Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (WatchMojo)
Top 10 Underrated Science Fictions Movies (WatchMojo)

EdPuzzle class code is: cajzagg

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) trailer


Listening Exercise
The Martian (2015) trailer / PDF 


🔥 Hot Seat 🔥 today: Kaito K, Yuri, Keisuke, Hiroto, Aoi


Make a Blog
1) Use Google Blogger* to make an original blog
* Google Blogger is in the apps list at the top right of the main Google page.
2) Make a blog title, such as Riki's Movie Blog or something similar.
3) Give your blog a URL.
4) Send the URL to Kevin by email.
5) Make your first blog post. Introduce a Science Fiction movie. Please write your own sentences (i.e., don't copy and paste from Wikipedia or another blog).
6) Add images, links and even video clips from YouTube if you can.

From now on, your blog comments will be posted on your blogs! 

To Do List
1) Watch as many SF trailers above as possible (more is better!)
2) Do the EdPuzzle exercise above; "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
3) Do The Martian (2015) video [we did in class]
4) Make your own movie blog with Google Blogger.
5) Make a blog post about a Science Fiction movie.
5) Send Kevin your blog URL


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Monday, April 18, 2022

Hot Seat Groups 2022

1)

Asami, Tomohiro

Okuyama, Rinka

Sato, Shou

Miyazaki, Daichi

Yamada, Terumasa

2)

Kanazawa, Yuri

Kanazawa, Kaito

Chuu, Hiroto

Maruyama, Aoi

Kouhata, Keisuke

3)

Kobayashi, Akane

Kawai, Hiroki

Saito, Daichi

Takahashi, Ryusei

Tamai, Kaito

4)

Ishizaka, Haruka

Kawakami, Reo

Shimamura, Kei

Fukuoka, Haruto

Miyata, Ren

5)

Odagiri, Erika

Komiyama, Hayate

Doi, Kosei

Honda, Kaito

 

6)

Mishima, Yuuto

Komine, Ryouga

Hitomi, Riki

Fujisawa, Kaito

 

 


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Sunday, April 17, 2022

Making a Blog

Short video on how to make a Google Blogger blog.

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Class #2 - Romance












Good afternoon, everyone.

Reminders:

  • You need a gmail account; did you make one?
  • Record your user name and password somewhere so you don't forget it!


Today's activities:

  • Review characteristics of Action/Adventure
  • Check on Mission Impossible & Tomb Raider exercises from last week
  • Characteristics of Romance genre
  • Romance Movies slideshow
  • Roman Holiday, a famous romance movie
  • Beauty and the Beast listening exercise
  • Grammar exercise - Articles - A, An



Roman Holiday
Gregory Peck & Audrey Hepburn in 'Roman Holiday'

At the Mouth of Truth in Rome

About Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck as a reporter and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. The movie is famous for featuring famous sightseeing spots in Rome, Italy such as Trevi Fountain and the Mouth of Truth. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. 

From Wikipedia		ローマの休日は1953年アメリカのロマンチックなコメディ映画です。ウィリアム・ワイラーが製作・監督した。記者としてグレゴリーペックと王室の王女としてオードリーヘップバーンを主演。イタリアのローマを表敬訪問した某国の王女と、彼女が滞在先から飛び出し一人でローマ市内に出て知り合った新聞記者との、切ない24時間の恋を描いている。トレビの泉や真実の口など、ローマの名だたる観光スポットを登場させていることでも有名である。 ヘップバーンはベスト女優のアカデミー賞を受賞しました。


** To do the EdPuzzle exercises on a smart phone, you need a smart phone app! (A PC doesn't require the app.)

EdPuzzle class code is: cajzagg


Clip #1




Beauty and the Beast listening exercise
Beauty and the Beast (2016) trailer / PDF / listening exercise

Grammar Exercise - Articles - A, An
Write "a", "an" or nothing in the blanks.

Make a comment in the comment box below. You can comment on ...
  • any romance movie
  • use your Gmail log-in; be sure to write your name in romaji at the end of your comment
  • your comment should be at least 4 sentences long
  • make your comment in a paragraph (don't use the Enter key after each sentence)

Here's an example of a good student comment from two years ago (but this one is about a Fantasy movie, not Action Adventure or Romance).











The Fault in Our Stars (2014) trailer



Brooklyn (2015) trailer


The Shape of Water (2017) trailer


Marry Me (2022) trailer




We will start a new speaking format today called Hot Seat.
  • Our first Hot Seat participants will be: Tomohiro, Rinka, Sho, Daichi M, Teru
Next week's Hot Seat names will be announced soon.

To Do List
1) Watch all trailers above. You can watch other Romance trailers too if you like.
2) Do the EdPuzzle exercises for Roman Holiday
3) Watch the Beauty and the Beast (2016) trailer and do the listening exercise
4) Write a blog comment about Romance movies
5) Be ready to tell me your Gmail address (in #6 below)
6) Do the A, An grammar exercise

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Sunday, April 3, 2022

Welcome to Kevin's Moviezemi 2022!

This is the Moviezemi blog for Kevin's Movie Seminar 2022.

moviezemi.blogspot.com

Welcome to the first class! How are you doing in this strange time of COVID-19? I hope you are staying healthy and keeping your older family members healthy. Let's try to maintain social distance, OK?

Kevin's Movie Seminar is a full year course (30 classes). 

As an introductory activity, I would like to know your favorite movie plus 2 reasons why you like the movie.

In this class, you will learn about movie genres and directors, watch movie clips, do grammar exercises, write and present. 


Today's movie genre is Action-Adventure.

* As homework after today's class, please make a Google (Gmail) account. You can use your own email account or your Tsurumi University student account as the backup email address. A backup email address is useful for when you forget your gmail account password. Your password will be sent to your backup account if you request it. Please make a note of your mail address and password!

Please understand, you must have a Google account.

Action

Some Action-Adventure Trailers & Clips
No Time to Die (2020) - trailer; most recent James Bond movie; Daniel Craig's final Bond film!
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019); trailer, coming soon!
Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018); trailer; starring Tom Cruise
Tomb Raider (2018) trailer
Baby Driver (2017) intro scene
The Fate of the Furious (2017) trailer
John Wick; Chapter 2 (2017) trailer; starring Keanu Reeves
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016); trailer; starring Tom Cruise
Spectre (2015) James Bond series; trailer
Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation (2015) trailer; starring Tom Cruise
Lucy (2014) trailer
John Wick (2014) trailer; starring Keanu Reeves
Skyfall (2012) James Bond series; trailer
Skyfall (2012) motorcycle chase scene
Rambo: First Blood (1982) - Rambo series trailer; starring Sylvester Stallone
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Indiana Jones series trailer; starring Harrison Ford, directed by Steven Spielberg

Jame Bond Series 1962-Present; slideshow
Top 10 James Bond Moments from WatchMojo.com
The James Bond Series - article on Wikipedia

Parody (パロディー) of James Bond; Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) as Johnny English:
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) trailer

* Watch 5 or more of the trailers above. Try to understand the genre "Action-Adventure"

Do the following listening exercises. *Type your answers carefully in the blanks on the Online Quizzes. 

* Make a blog comment (you need a Gmail account for this) on this blog about Action-Adventure. Kevin's example is in the blog comment box below.

More stuff to do!

* You need to work on your typing skills! This can only be done on a PC. Typing practice on a smart phone will not be useful. Typing Lessons at Typing.com

Grammar Review
You all know the Simple Present Tense in English grammar. We use it to describe things we do every day. For example, "Recently, I stay at home every day." and "She eats bread for breakfast."

Remember to add an 's; when the subject is he, she or it.

Singular  /  Plural
I speak English.  /  We speak English.
You speak English.  /  You speak English.
He speaks English  /  They speak English.
She speaks English
It speaks English.

Also, "Do you speak English?" and "Does she speak English?" "No, I don't speak English." "No, she doesn't speak English."

*Exercises:
017 Eduardo's Family - Simple Present Tense
018 What's the Word? - Simple Present Tense

*Week 1 To Do List (look for yellow stars above)
  1. Make a Google account (if you don't have one)
  2. Listen to 5 or more of the trailers and clips above
  3. Do the YouTube trailer listening exercises above 
  4. Do 1 online quiz from trailers (you can choose Mission Imp. or Tomb Raider)
  5. Make a blog comment on this blog about Action-Adventure
  6. Practice typing on a PC (this is optional)
  7. Do the 2 online grammar exercises above
If you have questions, send Kevin an email message. Send mail to my Tsurumi mail account.



Student - Teacher contact will be by ..
  • this blog
  • gmail
  • university email
  • Manaba (for announcements only; please don't message me with Manaba)
We will use all of these ways. Please reply when I contact you. Always include your name in your email messages.

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