A SINGLE LIFE Lesson plan

Prévia do material em texto

A SINGLE LIFE
1-Ask your students the following question:
 
What are the different stages of life? 
2-Put your students into pairs and give them some time to come up with as many stages of life as they can. 
3-Ask them what word (only one word) come to mind when you say the following words: birth; childhood; adolescence; adulthood; parenthood; middle age; old age; death 
4-Write stages on board
5-Ask them to write an emotion associated with each stage of life.
6-What are the advantages and disadvantages of the following stages of life: childhood; adolescence; adulthood; parenthood; and old age? 
7-Tell your students they are going to watch a short film about the different stages of life. As they watch they should try to identify the different stages and the objects which represent each stage.
 
8-Show the film twice and then get students to compare their responses
9-Ask the question:
What’s the film’s message and how does the film make you feel? 
10) Recap the story starting with:
“Once upon a time, there was a woman called Pia …” 
The film starts with a young woman in shorts just sitting down and enjoying a pizza while playing a record. By accident, the young woman finds out that by moving the needle around on her record player (which is playing a song called, “The Single Life”), she can move to different points in her life, in both the past and the future. 
She starts by only moving the record a little bit, playing with time so that the pizza she ate becomes whole and then making it go back again. However, she starts getting a little more adventurous and eventually goes further into the future to a time where she is pregnant and to a time when she is elderly and wheelchair bound. 
She manipulates her life span many times to see what her life is, was, and will be. While this may sound like a dream to many people, eventually, a song will end and that’s what the young woman in this short comes to realize.
A Single Life is about how each person gets a single life!
We only have one life to live and it is our job on this earth to live it. There is no need to speed up time, just let it take its course and enjoy every minute you have. It is such a simple message but A Single Life presents it in such a way that we don’t get it until the very last scene