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46 3. Download the teaching guide or read
it online. This will provide an overview of
the movie you have chosen and activities
relating to its subject and key themes. You
will also be able to adapt these activities
to your learning objectives. All guides
come with additional information about
the movie, analysis, and resources to
broaden knowledge and encourage
critical reflection and creativity. The
teaching guide is your key to achieving
your specific educational goals. You may
also wish to print it out for easier reading.

4. Prepare the screening. Whether or not
you are familiar with the chosen movie, it
is very important that you watch it in full
(or at the very least those sequences you
intend to work with) before playing it in
class. We always recommend screening
the entire movie in one session, but if this
is not possible, you can begin by watching
the key sequence selected in the teaching
guide. This will provide a strong summary
of key aspects of the movie’s narrative,
ideas, themes and staging (it can be
accessed via the movie presentation
page’.

5. Present the film. Before watching
the movie in class, you should prepare
your students by presenting the movie
they are about to watch, providing a little
context and explaining the key themes
the movie will touch on. To help you with
this, all teaching guides offer a series of
introductory questions and activities to
open a discussion that can be continued
after the screening. The objective of these
is not to determine students’ responses
to the movie but to focus their attention
on aspects they will be working on after
viewing. It is important to give students
the chance to react and respond to each
other, so as to stimulate discussion and
exchange ideas or opinions.