ESL TEDTalks. Teachingwithted / Pages & Files. Talks. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education. Sheena Iyengar: The art of choosing. Bjarke Ingels: Hedonistic sustainability. World Peace Game Foundation. Eve Ensler on security. Award-winning teen-age science in action. Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. Ramona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing. Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture. 10 Speaking English Activities using TED.com.
Many English Language teachers, when deciding to work with a video clip in their classrooms, make a false assumption that for an activity to be considered as really teaching, then prior to showing it, they'd better sit down for a few hours, prepare an extensive worksheet filled with vocabulary and grammar questions and what-not...in order to turn it into a good pedagogical exercise, you know to ensure it's really not just glorified babysitting. ;-) Personally, I don't agree and I really don't think that extensive worksheets provide a particularly authentic experience - such a thing mainly just erodes the power of the message within the video, takes away the inherent pleasure in learning from TED speakers.
Here are a few simple activities you can do with the video clip you're about to show/ are showing/ have shown to your students without designing a full worksheet : 1. Prediction: what's the video going to be about?