The 82nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, March 7. Follow the link below to download a classroom activity in which students edit Penelope Cruz’s 2009 Oscar acceptance speech to reduce it down to 45 seconds, the requested maximum length of an acceptance speech.
To get started, find out if any of your students ever watch the Oscar ceremony. What do they like most or least about the event. What do they think of the speeches the winners give? Are they too long?












