This educational guide offers a variety of activities for teachers of English language learners to use with students to accompany a screening of the film The World Is Bright. The combined audio-visual nature of film provides an access point for students to become familiar with English-language stories and media in an immersive and engaging format. Through discussion and practice of relevant and meaningful vocabulary, themes and topics, students can increase their understanding and comfort with written and oral English.
This resource is appropriate for use by Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) instructors using portfolio-based language assessment (PBLA) to fulfill requirements set out by Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB). It contains activities and suggestions for assessing the progress of English language learners before and after viewing the film.