Developing initial responses to 'The Man on the Moon' | English

Starter quiz

A film is ...
- words on a page.
- a video for a song.
- a moving story that you watch on a screen. ✓
Order these parts of a story correctly.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  beginning
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  middle
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  end
What is a character?
- a place in a story
- a theme in a story
- a person or animal in a story ✓
Tension in story ...
- is where the story is set.
- is the sense that something big is about to happen. ✓
- is when the story is set.
When you reach a resolution, you ...
- arrive at the start of something.
- don't care about anything.
- find a satisfying ending. ✓
Match the text type to its genre.
- fiction
  
  ⇔
  
  narrative ✓
- non-fiction first person
  
  ⇔
  
  diary ✓
- non-fiction third person
  
  ⇔
  
  non-chronological report ✓

The main characters in 'The Man on the Moon' are:
- Lily's mum
- Lily ✓
- Lily's brother
- the man on the moon ✓
Lily is excited because it is ...
- Christmas Day. ✓
- her birthday.
- a party.
- the man on the moon's birthday.
Viewers might feel sorry for the man on the moon because ...
- he seemed hungry.
- he seemed over-excited.
- he seemed lonely and isolated. ✓
Finish this sentence: 'Imagination is the mind’s ability to create pictures and ideas that are not ______.'
- 'real' ✓
The central message of the film is ...
- the importance of spending time with your family.
- the importance of connecting with others who may be lonely. ✓
- the importance of buying presents.
'I liked how much compassion Lily showed' is an example of which of the following?
- imagination
- a response ✓
- a sense

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'The Man on the Moon’ is a short film about a man who lives on the moon.
Visual literacy writing units use short films or moving picture as the stimulus for writing.
Imagination must be used to picture a man living on the moon.
Pupils will have different responses to the same clip and these should be discussed.
Hot-seating is a drama technique that helps pupils understand and empathise with fictional characters.

Pupils may find it hard to imagine the scene without having seen anything like it before.

Whilst it might be difficult to imagine it perfectly, we can use our imagination to create ideas that paint a vivid picture.

Imagination - the mind’s ability to create pictures and ideas that aren’t real
Empathise - getting inside a character's head
Response - a feeling, emotion or opinion that can be discussed about something someone has seen or heard