Teaching technologies: teaching English using video. By Mark McKinnon An article offering advice and suggestions on how to teach English using video.
Video is a valuable and possibly underused classroom tool. There is always the temptation to simply put a video on at the end of term and let our students watch a film without even challenging them to be actively involved. Video as a listening tool can enhance the listening experience for our students. We very rarely hear a disembodied voice in real life but as teachers we constantly ask our students to work with recorded conversations of people they never see.
8 MORE Knowledge Websites With Free Online Video Lectures. Our fixation on YouTube shouldn’t allow us to miss out on some other great video sites out there.
When it comes to video lectures we have seensix really good ones; now let’s switch on to eight more and get some free courses on information and knowledge. PopTech. Listen To News. Each Tuesday EnglishClub publishes a short audio news report in easy English from the previous week.
With this resource you can practise your listening, reading, writing and even speaking. Preview the vocabulary and read the gapfill text.