Hello and welcome to the commentary for the Hitch introduction.

Let's get started.

Hitch is a great movie by the way.

It's a really nice movie. It's a romantic comedy. It's funny starring

Will Smith and I have used Hitch many times in my classes in San Francisco. I will use the whole movie, not just one scene, but I will teach the entire movie little by little.

And what I do, it's called the focal skills movie technique, but I mean it sounds great, but it's really quite simple.

I show one scene of a movie, maybe two minutes, maybe one minute.

And I show it normal speed, then I go back, then I show it again and I pause and I explain

new vocabulary, slang and idioms, then I go back again.

The third time I turn the sound off.

And then I play part of a scene, I pause,

and I ask the students questions about the movie. I might say,

say, you know, what's happening here?

Describe this character.

What do you think he is thinking?

Why is he doing this? What is this person doing? Describe the place where they are at?

What are they saying to each other? Anyway, I ask a lot of questions about what's happening in the movie. Then after we finish that three times I go to the next

scene and we do the same thing again. So one movie usually takes a few weeks to show but it works really well it's very very popular my

students love it it's the most popular thing I do in my class.

And so I started thinking, okay, this is really popular.

Students love it.

How can I do this on Effortless English?

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