Pharrell Williams Lego Biopic

Biopics are quite popular and so are Lego films. What about a Lego biopic then? Pharrell Williams only agreed to a biopic being made about his life if it was a Lego animation. Piece by Piece is the perfect creative way to tell this creative and original artist’s life. Many music stars such as Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani and Kendrick Lamar appear in the film, transformed into Lego figures too.

These activities based on a short A2 article paired with the trailer will help your students learn more about the artist’s life and career while working on words and enriching their vocabulary – thanks to derivation and lexical fields.

It could be used as a means to revise the past tense or as follow-up work to a lesson related to either music or biography. And why not work on the “Happy” song with the music teacher after this?

This article can be used for differenciation with Shine Bright Première File 1 Biopics in Hollywood.

Vocabulary and structures
• dates: April 5 / the 1990s…
• talking about past events (preterite)
• music: musicians , artists, beats, sounds, …
• clothes: clothing, fashion designer, style, ...
• personality: positive outlook on life, caring, loving..
• voicing opinion: I think, I have mixed feelings, I don’t think so…

Pronunciation
• piece /ˈpiːs/
• Virginia /vəˈdʒɪnɪə/
• career /kəˈrɪə/

This is the trailer for the film: