Cloze exercises are a staple of listening classes. For Screen English, I typically make my own cloze exercises based on online movie trailers or clips. Here are some handouts featuring cloze exercises from clips available on YouTube. They can be downloaded, photocopied, and used with the clips linked below. For teachers who wish to make their own cloze exercises, there are links to some good script sources below as well.
Activity File: 'Rush Hour 3' cloze handout
Activity File: 5 Horror Movie Trailers cloze & short answers handout
Activity File: Top 10 Jack Nicholson Performances handout
Activity File: Top 10 Tim Burton Movies handout
YouTube clips for use with the above handouts:
Scene from 'Rush Hour 3'
5 Horror Movie Trailers:
Psycho
The Exorcist
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Others
Top 10 Jack Nicholson Performances
WatchMojo: Top 10 Tim Burton Movies
Online script sites useful for making cloze exercises*:
Internet Movie Script Database (no apparent relation to IMDb)
YouTube/Subtitled Trailers
*When using a subtitled trailer to make a cloze exercise, the key is to first find the same trailer online without subtitles for students to view during the exercise. Obviously, there would not be much point in making a cloze exercise for a trailer with the subtitles viewable. Example:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (with subtitles); click on the subtitle icon, lower right
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (no subtitles)
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