A Grand Day Out by Nick Park ELT Adaptation by Peter Viney & Karen Viney Student’s Book by Peter Viney & Karen Viney Teacher’s Guide by Lorena Roberts Components Student’s Book ISBN 0 19 459245 6 Teacher’s Book ISBN 0 19 459246 4 VHS PAL video ISBN 0 19 459247 2 VHS SECAM video ISBN 0 19 459249 9 VHS NTSC video ISBN 0 19 459248 0 DVD ISBN 0 19 459238 3 Published by Oxford University Press, 2003 © Oxford University Press and Aardman ™/ Wallace and Gromit Ltd

Introduction
The Wallace and Gromit films are enormously popular with audiences of all ages so in The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave the Student’s Book activities have been designed so that they are suitable for a wide age range.

A Grand Day Out is the lowest in level of our three adaptations, and the Student Book has been designed with children in mind, and the activities are more child-orientated than in The Wrong Trousers or A Close Shave.

The ELT adaptations of the videos correspond in order of difficulty to the order of publication of the original films.Together they form a series with a progressive syllabus.

Peter Sallis is on the right.	Stephen Tompkinson

The activities in the Student’s Book are aimed at beginner level. With higher levels, however, the video can be used effectively for revision purposes and the teaching notes offer numerous suggestions for ways in which the language and the Student’s Book activities can be extended.

A Grand Day Out has been broken down into six short episodes:

Language syllabus (from the Teacher’s Guide):

The Student’s Book
For each episode the Student’s Book contains the following material:

Watching the video
Four pages of activities for classroom exploitation. We recommend allowing a double lesson (90 – 100 minutes) to benefit fully from the video and the suggested activities.

The activities are based around the following viewing stages:

Episode 1 Viewing the complete episode - download sample (PDF)

1 Viewing of the complete episode At this level it is best to show the students the whole episode before breaking it down for more detailed language work. This encourages students to watch and listen in order to understand the gist of what is happening and provides a context for the activities which follow. There is a pre-watching activity and a post-watching activity for each episode.

For each of the viewing stages there are various activities with different aims and objectives as follows:

Before you watch activities
These pre-viewing tasks have been designed to do one or more of the following:

• pre-teach key vocabulary
• introduce a key structure
• set the scene

While you watch activities
These tasks are either observational activities in which students are asked to watch and/or listen for specific details or checking activities in which students watch in order to check their answers to a previously completed exercise.

After you watch activities
By this stage, students should be fairly familiar with the sequence. These tasks encourage students to focus on a variety of aspects such as:

• idiomatic expressions
• sequencing and narrating events
• comprehension
• language review

3 Watching the whole episode again
It’s important to let students watch the whole episode again, after they have completed all the activities and practised the language. As well as being enjoyable, it also enables the students to appreciate how much more they can now understand as a result of the work they have done.

Practice
There are two pages of practice activities at the end of each episode. These activities, although based on the story, aim to provide further practice and extension of the key vocabulary and structures. They can be done in a subsequent lesson without reference to the video, and build on the interest in the episode. With faster classes, they can be done with the Watching the Video exploitation.
Practice activities include:

• Pairwork activities on the structures
• Word games
• Vocabulary building
• Oral chants
• Picture stories
• Spelling exercises
• Number exercises
• Matching activities
• Mime activities

Episode 5 A chant from the Practice section

download Episode 6 Transcript - download sample (PDF)

Transcripts The transcripts have been provided as reference to use after the lesson. Students often like to read the transcripts, make notes and add translations. This is usually done at home and should not be discouraged as any extra work can only be advantageous. However, we would not advise teachers to use the transcripts before any of the viewing stages, rather as a review, particularly with higher levels.

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