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James Bond rents a car! - Luiz Otávio Barros. This is a video-based lesson for intermediate students, suitable for both teens and adults.

James Bond rents a car! - Luiz Otávio Barros

It focuses on skill development and introduces / reviews quite a lot of functional language students might find useful. These are the three key principles underlying the activities: 1. The first viewing task should allow students to actually watch (and enjoy) the video without too many distractions. 2. Subsequent viewing tasks should enable students to “squeeze the video dry” and understand as much as realistically possible without necessarily having to watch the whole thing again. Instructional TV Productions. Sökresultat: Engelska - UR Skola. Time Lapse & Stop Motion Camera. How to become a better person. Great Questions – StoryCorps.

Here are some of our suggestions for getting a good conversation going.

Great Questions – StoryCorps

We encourage you to use the ones you like and to come up with your own. This list is in no particular order. Choose one of the categories below, or scroll through and read them all. Great Questions for Anyone Can you tell me about a person who has been kindest to you in your life? Friends or Colleagues If you could interview anyone from your life living or dead, but not a celebrity, who would it be and why? Grandparents Where did you grow up? Raising Children When did you first find out that you’d be a parent? Parents Do you remember what was going through your head when you first saw me?

Growing Up. StoryCorps with Upworthy. Tubequizard. Lesson Plan Theme: Documentaries & Media Literacy. POV has featured a number of films that are ideal for introducing students to documentaries and media literacy.

Lesson Plan Theme: Documentaries & Media Literacy

This collection offers educators a range of our most popular accompanying content, produced in response to requests from educators – from web features to discussion guides, lesson plans and reading lists. Note: Lesson plans are accompanied by streaming video clips. Lesson Plans. By Jamie Keddie Mis-images - Lessonstream.org. I’ve always been fascinated by misunderstandings.

by Jamie Keddie Mis-images - Lessonstream.org

Rather than being moments of communicative failure, they can draw our attention to details of language that we have never thought about before. In other words, we can learn from them. And importantly, every misunderstanding provides us with a story to tell. The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy. I’ve been writing lesson plans designed around short films for my website Film English for six years.

The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy

Teachers often ask me how I find the short films I use in my lesson plans. The answer is quite simple: I’ve watched literally thousands of short films and developed an instinct for the type of engaging and simple short films which will work in the ELT classroom. In this article I’d like to share what for me are the seven best short films for the language classroom. The Mirror The Mirror is a short film by Ramon and Pedro which tells the story of a boy’s journey from childhood to old age.

The Notebook. Pepper Spray Monster Cop VS Protestors. The Woman in the Red Dress. Taken from Occupy Gezi Facebook page.

The Woman in the Red Dress

Also used by Reuters A woman in a red dress sprayed with what appears to be pepper spray in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. The image vividly illustrates the popular uprising in Turkey: a young and vibrant youth movement suppressed by the state. 3 App Smash Video Projects to Challenge Your Students. When app-smashing on iPad, students and teachers use multiple apps to create individual pieces of content that are then merged or smashed together into one culminating product.

3 App Smash Video Projects to Challenge Your Students

Applying this concept dramatically increases creative potential, and the rate at which apps are developing allows for new, unique, and dynamic creations to consistently challenge what seemed possible only a few months or weeks ago. The final product involved in app-smashing often lends itself to video, so to kick off the school year, here are a few app-smashing video projects. Animated Paper Videos This video process involves creating drawings offline with paper that will later become animated, include voice-overs, and can be published to the web. Begin the project by creating a set of drawings of either characters, icons or ideas. Nightmairbnb. Note : All Viralelt posts share the same structure.

Nightmairbnb

Teacher’s notes appear only on How to use Viralelt. This is done to keep “teacher text” to a minimum and avoid repetition. Before showing your students the video below, write “Nightmairbnb” on the board and elicit their ideas as to what they think the video might be about. If you think the majority of your students will not be familiar with Airbnb, “flip your classroom” by asking them to research the term as homework before coming to class. Teachers. Storytelling for the YouTube generation. Listening and movies. Video lessons. Themes. Kortfilmsklubben - engelska: First day. Lessonstream.org by Jamie Keddie. Shakespeare In The Classroom - By Kieran Donaghy. List of historical period drama films. The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people.

List of historical period drama films

Some historical dramas are docudramas, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow. Other historical dramas are fictionalized tales that are based on an actual person and their deeds, such as Braveheart, which is loosely based on the 13th-century knight William Wallace's fight for Scotland's independence. Due to the sheer volume of films included in this genre and in the interest of continuity, this list is primarily focused on films pertaining to the history of Near Eastern and Western civilization. For films pertaining to the history of East Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, please refer also to the list of Asian historical drama films.

Films set in prehistory[edit] Films set in Antiquity (until the fall of the Roman Empire in the West)[edit]