How to use TV series, trailers and films in language class How many ways are there to use moving images in the classroom? English language teacher Svetlana Urisman, who won last month's TeachingEnglish blog award, shares her advice. Comment below this post if you have further tips. Why TV series are sometimes better than films One of my favourite things to watch are series - they are shorter, they let you come back to the characters again and again and predict what will happen to them next. As for the grammar, I've always liked films and series as a great source of that - 'real', spoken grammar. Mycroft Holmes: My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher and yet he elects to be a detective. Or tag questions, such as this example from Mad Men (season 2, episode 1) Driver to Betty: 'It would be, wouldn't it? How do you make business English interesting? Some films are great for business English, an area where you wouldn't think of watching films as a first choice. How to get your classroom to choose: Trailers Subtitles: on or off?
Free K-12 Educational Materials - Worksheets, Lesson Plans, and More | Student Handouts Building a lesson around a sitcom Depending on your style of teaching you might like activities that are more - or less - controlled. Informal discussions, structured language analysis, role-plays, review writing .... If it works for you and your students, it's valid. Choosing a sitcomThere are thousands of British sitcoms. Choosing a sceneOnce you have selected a sitcom the next step is to choose an appropriate scene. Extracting useful language What makes language useful? Useful web resources Some of the most popular sitcoms have the scripts for some or all of the episodes available on the Internet. www.youtube.com is the best place to find videos of British sitcoms. In the classroom There are lots of different ways that you can exploit sitcoms in the classroom from simply pre-teaching any relevant vocabulary, watching a clip and then having a follow-up discussion - to using prepared worksheets for consolidating grammar structures or lexis. Divide the class into pairs of As and Bs. Write a review for your class.
EX - Alabama Learning Exchange Lesson Plans Based on TV Shows TWM offers the following "movie worksheets" which serve as the core for TV show lesson planning. The basic idea is to get students to analyze something in which they are interested and to express their conclusions in writing. This will make homework more palatable and lead students to give it their best effort. The worksheets created by TWM are generic; useful for almost any program of the type indicated. Also check out TWM's Extra Assignments for a Food Program. The 2010 Common Core State Standards require that teachers in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects join in the effort to assist students in learning how to read, write, and listen. To use the worksheets, first review them to make sure that they are appropriate for the class and the assignment; adjust as necessary. An exhaustive discussion of the potential uses of television programming is beyond the scope of this article. Using TV Program Worksheets for Homework Assignments in ELA Lesson Plans
6 Completed Lesson And Unit Plans Recently, I wrote a blog about 5 ways that we can learn through writing lesson plans. I also shared a resource collection of lesson and unit planning with 10 templates. We know that we can learn about lesson planning by writing out our plans and using templates, but we can also learn by reading the plans of other educators. Reading the plans of others gives us the opportunity to learn new ideas for great lessons. The resources in this blog contain tons and tons of completed plans to learn from. Scholastic’s Lesson Plan Database hosts thousands of completed lesson and unit plans for grades pre-K-12 in all subjects. Better Lesson, the National Education Association’s lesson plan site, features over 3000 Common Core-aligned lesson plans developed by teachers participating in the NEA’s Master Teacher Project. Share My Lesson, the American Federation of Teachers’ lesson plan database, contains nearly 300,000 resources created by teachers.
The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2016 – Part Two I use short, funny video clips a lot when I’m teaching ELLs, and you can read in detail about how I use them in The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them). In short, there are many ways to use them that promote speaking, listening, writing and reading (including having students describe – in writing and verbally – a chronological description of what they saw). I’ve posted a few of them during the second half of this year, and I thought it would be useful to readers — and to me — if I brought them together in one post. I’ve also published quite a few during the previous ten years of this blog. The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2016 – So Far The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2015 – Part Two The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2015 – So Far The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2014 – Part Two The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2014 – Part One The “All-Time” Best Videos For Educators
7 ESL Video Activities That Your Students Will Love There’s never been a better time to use video in the ESL classroom. Remember the old days of VCRs, VHS tapes and trips to Blockbuster? When I started teaching, my classroom video material were well-worn, borrowed cassette tapes or ones I recorded at home. Finding a good quality video was like striking pure, untarnished gold. Once you’d acquired the precious item, you’d need to find a room, set up a TV, plug in the video player and then hope to goodness that everything worked. Sometimes, you’d accidentally stick a VHS tape in a Betamax machine (yes, I’m that old!) To be honest, it was such a hassle that you just didn’t bother most of the time. Fast forward a few years, (sorry about the pun!) Websites like FluentU have made life much easier for students and teachers alike by curating authentic video clips and providing all the scaffolding that students could ever need. Why Use Video to Teach ESL Students? There are a number of reasons why video is a great resource in the ESL classroom: 1. 2. 3.
Voscreen: teaching with video clips I might be a bit late to the Voscreen party as I discovered this free platform a couple of months ago. I’ve been experimenting with it quite a bit and I’d like to share my 10 ideas about using it with English learners in and out of the classroom. What is Voscreen? Voscreen is a free platform (you need to sign up / log in with your Facebook account which takes 5 seconds) offering a variety of very short video clips which come from TV series, movies, songs, you name it. In each short clip, a phrase is said. As you enter the website, you select your native language, watch the clip, and then choose the accurate translation to the short phrase uttered in the clip. There are 5 levels of difficulty to choose from, as well as a number of grammar categories to browse through (Present Simple, Prepositions, Phrasal Verbs, Passive Voice etc.). Using Voscreen with students #1 Paraphrasing (levels intermediate and higher) Voscreen lends itself perfectly to practice paraphrasing. #2 What happened next?
Step 9: Creating and Using Video – Teacher Challenges Welcome to the nineth step in our free professional learning series on class and student blogging! The aim of this step is to provide an overview of creating and using videos with students to help get you started using video or get more out of using videos. Thanks to everyone who helped plan and shared resources on using video . Back to Top Why educators use video Educators use videos for a wide range of purposes including: To motivate and engage students – students enjoy using technology to create their own videos.Supplement or enhance a lesson to bring the topic to lifeProvide instructions students can review anytime, any where – handy for when students are absent, to help students with skills they find hard and exam revision. There are so many different ways you can use to create videos with students, ranging from quick and fast ways to create video to more creative, time consuming techniques, that it is impossible to cover them all. Video creation and editing Animoto iOS | Android| Web Vine
TV SHOW LESSONS These intermediate English lessons are based on the TV show ‘Father Ted’. Lessons include grammar explanations, exercises, vocabulary tasks and discussion questions. They are ideal for self-study and classroom use. I recommend that you read the questions on this page, then watch the corresponding episode (try and find this online), then answer the questions and check your answers (scroll down to find the answers). And god created womanCigarettes, alcohol and rollerbladingA Christmassy Ted Purchase pdf files for exercises for TV shows (including MORE Father Ted) here… And god created woman Series 1 Episode 5. Comprehension: 1) Which author does Father ted like? 2) Why does Miss Clarke want to stay at Father Ted’s house? 3) What does Father Ted suggest Miss Clarke do when she arrives? 4) Why was Dougal hiding? 5) How do they put Father Jack’s wheelchair into ‘automatic’? 6) Why doesn’t Mrs Doyle like Miss Clarke’s book? 7) Why has Miss Clarke had a rough year? 10) Why mustn’t Jim ring the doctor?