Freeze Frame activities to teach English
Developing Freeze Frames What is it about? Freeze Frame is a fun, interactive way to review a story by assigning to students to groups that create physical depictions of scenes from a story (short film, class story, novel, etc.) in ‘freeze frame’ vignettes. In a freeze frame, students work together in groups to visually represent one part of a story through dramatisation. It is a silent, motionless depiction of a scene. Members of a group use their bodies to make an image or picture capturing an idea, theme, or moment in time from the text. Each group presents their freeze frame to the rest of the class with the teacher counting down to zero at which point the whole group freeze into position. Freeze frame encourages close reading of a particular scene in a text and all students contribute. HOW TO DO FREEZE FRAME: Select 8-10 scenes from a story or text that would be interesting to depict in a “freeze frame” vignette. Divide the class into groups. The gro...