If a picture speaks a thousand words then motion pictures must express millions. Although video can be used as a stimulus to write in a variety of genres, styles and persuasive forms, this activity uses video to produce a narrative paragraph. To provide practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement. To give students a context to write a narrative paragraph using appropriate temporal adjectives and past tense forms. Video segment depicting a series of actions.
Some good sources are TV commercials, rock videos, and movies.
One of my favorite movie segments is the suspenseful opening scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I also have a favorite TV commercial in which a mother does and witnesses a number things before her first cup of coffee in the morning. After that first sip she transforms from a mute zombie to a roaring drill sergeant. Write a target narrative paragraph to determine the number and nature of the verbs that are likely to be used. Make a list of these target verbs and supplement the list with related verbs.