Love Actually - AQA Relationships Psychology Display Task

This is a task used to get students to apply the AQA Psychology A Level Relationships topic to the film Love Actually. It’s become a staple of my course and is up there with the sweet neuron lessons, sampling with Skittles lessons.

This idea being that they:

• Watch the film, Love Actually.
• As they watch they write down examples of Evolutionary explanations, Factors affecting attraction and theories of romantic relationships, as shown in the film.
• Then afterwards the teacher will go through some examples on the board of this to support them through the group work.
• The students will be put into groups and create an overview sheet on one particular topic (Filter Theory for example). They will then create a sheet referring to key terms and concepts, using examples from the film. I usually give them a lesson to start then the rest is homework.

For obvious reasons, this download does not include the film. At various points this can be found on streaming sites. At time of putting this resource up it can be found on both Amazon Prime and Britbox. It is periodically on Netflix (often in the run up to Christmas). It’s a great pre-Christmas activity and allows you to have display work at the end of it.

This file includes: Note sheet for students to fill in with examples from the film (A teacher cheat sheet to help prompt the students). I’ve also included the names of the main protagonists and pictures to help students. I’ve also included the times I would try to skip over in the film (roughly, please watch before showing students) as there are a few sex scenes in which may be a bit awkward to watch with your classes! Times can be found on the teacher cheat sheet. It also includes headings for the display. To get the full effect please download the following fonts (Helvetica and Helvetica Light (which mirror the Love Actually font) for the display titles. You can convert them but they won’t have quite the same effect.

I’ve also included a couple of photos of the displays produced by my classes (in progress). You could get them to do it individually if you wish.

https://www.fontsplace.com/helvetica-light-free-font-download.html
https://freefontsfamily.com/helvetica-font-family/

If you have any questions please email me at jwilson@arthurmellows.org