This is an activity intended to reinforce and contrast simple past and past continuous. They start discussing school memories (so maybe it's best to use with adult students), then they have a somewhat simple task to identify moments of the video using these tenses (and it's the teacher task to call attention to when we use one or the other) and then practice asking questions, which I think it's something they have a hard time doing even in higher levels.
"Freaks and Geeks is an American teen comedy-drama that centers on a teenage girl, Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini), and her younger brother, Sam (John Francis Daley), who both attend William McKinley High School during the 1980–1981 school year in the town of Chippewa, Michigan, a fictional suburb of Detroit.
Lindsay's friends constitute the "freaks" and Sam's friends constitute the "geeks" of the title. The show's starting point is Lindsay's transition from her life as an academically proficient student, star "mathlete", who hangs out with troubled slackers. Her relationships with her new friends, and the friction they cause with her parents and with her own self-image, form one central strand of the show; the other follows Sam and his group of geeky friends as they navigate a different part of the social universe and try to fit in." [source: Wikipedia]
Hope it's useful.
Cheers,
G.
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