About this Teaching Resource

This compiled PDF contains 19 teaching activities linked to the Genie from Down Under television series.

Students explore:

• the comedy genre in TV programs
• the techniques for creating mood and atmosphere in filmed narratives
• compare how a comedy scene is portrayed in a tv program with how it is written in the tie-in book
• the use of exposition and the role of a narrator
• the notion of identity and the discrepancies between how we see ourselves and how others see us
• the techniques of exposition, stereotyping, and idiomatic expressions help to tell a story.