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This choice board is a student-centered learning tool designed around the movie Wicked. It gives students a variety of engaging tasks to choose from, all of which build on different language skills, including reading, listening, speaking, and writing. It revolves around the following essential question: "How can watching movies help me improve my English skills?".

The central square (#5) is a required task — writing a one-paragraph summary after watching the 2024 Wicked movie — which grounds the activity in a shared experience. From there, students complete a tic-tac-toe pattern by selecting two other activities either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The tasks vary from analytical exercises like reviewing lyrics or making predictions, to creative outputs such as writing a song or designing a theme poster. This flexibility accommodates different learning styles and encourages autonomy, motivation, and deeper engagement with the content. By giving students choice, the activity respects individual interests and strengths while ensuring key language objectives are met.

This choice board is most appropriate for intermediate (B1) English students, but it can be used with beginner (A2) students, with some scaffolding. Here are some ways to do it:

1. Pre-teach Key Vocabulary

Before students watch the movie, read the review, or analyze lyrics, teach essential words (e.g., enchanting, defying, exhausting).
Use visuals, examples, or simple definitions to make the vocabulary accessible.

2. Model the Task

For writing a paragraph summary (Box 5), show students a sample summary first. Highlight sentence structure, transition words, and tense. You could even co-write a sample on the board.

3. Provide Sentence Starters or Frames

For oral or written tasks:
“In this scene, Elphaba ____.”
“The song ‘Defying Gravity’ shows that ____ because ____.”
“One theme in Wicked is ____, which is shown when _____.”

P.S.: Since the activities are "connected" horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, the audio for activity #7 is the same as the one linked in activity #3.

Feel free to adapt the choice board to the proficiency level that you need. You can download it below.