Billy Elliot

Language: British English
Country: London, England
Epoch and social background: UK miners’ strike (1984 – 1985)
Main Characters:
Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell)
Miss Wilkinson (Julie Walters)
Jackie Elliot (Gary Lewis)
Tony Elliot (Jamie Draven)
Billy’s Grand mother (Jean Heywood)
Michael Caffrey (Stuart Wells)
George Watson (Mike Elliot)
Sr. Braithwait (Billy Frane)
Debbie Wilkinson (Nicola Blackwell)
Billy Elliot at 25 years old (Adam Cooper)
Michael Caffrey at 25 years old (Merryn Owen)

Powerful ideas and values:
Fight for your dreams
Sexism (sports related with girls/boys)
Talent
Hope
Political problems

Colloquialism:
Poof: An offensive word for a homosexual man.

This is a very good movie; I like it very much because it shows a boy who is fighting for his dream to become a professional ballet dancer. Jackie and Tony are both out on strike, and Billy realizes he does not like boxing so he takes ballet classes with the help of Miss Wilkinson. His father and his brother both are against Billy because they think he is homosexual or as they say “poof”. At the end both understood Billy’s passion was dancing and Billy became a professional ballet dancer.
There are some things that called my attention one of them was the use of offensive words and a lot of swearwords. Another one was this movie has something similar with the clockwork orange movie, because both use several songs in different scenes in the movie according to the effect that the director wants.

Children Obesity

Stephanie’s micro-lesson was about children obesity. She also did a presentation not a micro-lesson. She was the only one who talked in the lesson and her topic was about something we all know and there was nothing to learn about it.

The power point was good, but she had some problems of pronunciation, that we supposed not to have it. I think if she had respected the time, the presentation would have been more interesting.

National Institute

Gustavo’s micro-lesson was about National Institute and its history. It was a little bit boring because, for me was not an interesting topic at all, and it was a presentation of the topic not a micro-lesson. He did not teach anything and he was too nervous, maybe because he had to remember too many things, he also said some quotes in Spanish, which were unnecessary, maybe he would paraphrased it.

On the other hand, he had a good tone of voice and he used the space very good. I think he could have caught classmates’ attention, if he had been presented the topic in another way.