15 Excellent YouTube Channels for Language Teachers and ESL Learners January 13, 2017 YouTube hosts a treasure trove of excellent educational content that speaks to the learning needs of a wide variety of audiences. Some of this content is created by dedicated teachers and educators who took it upon themselves to promote learning beyond the traditional walls of their classrooms. For instance, in the area of English language learning, there are numerous language teachers (including EFL and ESL) who have set their own YouTube channels and provide video lessons covering almost everything related to language learning. Today's post highlights some of these channels. 1- BBC Learning English BBC Learning English provides ‘great grammar, drama, news, study, pronunciation, vocabulary, music, interviews and celebrity videos.’2- Best of Learning English ‘Listening English Everyday with BBC Learning English Listening Skills channel. 4- Daily English Conversation 6- Speak English With Misterduncan ‘English lessons aimed at everyone. 7- EF podEnglish 8- JenniferESL
Selected VOA Special English TV Videos The newer videos are near the top of each category. To see all the videos, go to VOA Special English TV Videos. Architecture Designing a Quake-Resistant Building Starts at the Soil Computers Environment / Ecology Games Gardening Health How to Do Things Japan Language Money How an Allowance Helps Children Learn About Money Music Nature People Places Space Is NASA's James Webb Space Telescope a Time Machine? Sports Unsorted More ... To see all the videos, go to VOA Special English TV Videos.
ELT Listening Material – Nathan Hall Here is a regularly updated collection of authentic and adapted listening material that could be used in an English language classroom or my students for extensive listening. Click on the title of the website to go to that page, or click on the ‘More Information’ link to get a summary of information on length, accents, transcripts, and more. If you find any links that do not work, please let me know. Also, if you have anything to add to this list, please share it with my using the contact page on this website or send me a message on Twitter (@nathanghall) and I will make sure to give you credit. = Adapted for those who speak English as an additional language Conversational The Listening Project: A BBC weekly podcast from the daily radio program of the same name. StoryCorps: A radio program from NPR. ELLLO: Short semi-scripted conversations on various topics. New Dubliners: Interviews with immigrants to Ireland. BBC – Great Lives: Discussions on important people from history. Stories Inc.
TeacherTube - Teach the World TED talks for autonomous listening: ten activities – ELT stories The first week of the Electronic Village Online is in full swing! I’m co-moderating the session on teaching listening, and this week, under the guidance of Lizzie Pinard, we’ve started out with the topic of encouraging learner autonomy. One great thing about online sessions like this one is that there are a lot of participants who share a wealth of tips about the activities and resources they use. What also often happens, however, is that the teacher recommends this resource but the learners don’t start using it – and the teacher kind of knows that they don’t, but they don’t even ask because that would be admitting failure (oh haven’t I been there a lot of times?) First of all, in her live session Lizzie offered some tips how to encourage the learners to start learning out of class in general: So, if we get back to TED talks, this means that Below I outline ten ideas for tasks based on TED talks Before I describe the ideas themselves, here are some tips that work with all these ideas: Upd.
Movie Segments for Warm-ups and Follow-ups: Juno: Teenage Pregnancy This is a great movie. Teenage pregnancy is dealt with in a creative, different manner. My students had a lot to say about it. I. Talk to a partner about the following questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. - if he is underaged too? - if he is older than 18? - If he is older than 35? - If he had raped the teenager? - if he has a wife? - if he denies it? II. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. - You were Juno? - You were Juno's best friend? - You were Juno's parents? - You were the father of the baby? - You were the foster parents to whom Juno promised to give the baby away. 7.
ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English | ELL/ELT We've got many more video-based listening comprehension exercises (as well as tons of other great content) in our ad-freePREMIUM EDITION. Sign up today! Here's what you do: Click on the video you want to watch below.Watch the video, and pay attention to it! Till The Hummingbird Project Silver Linings Playbook Away We Go Aftersun Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Emergency Licorice Pizza Adventureland End of the Tour at the hairdresser's Image Credit: Pixabay I was asked a few weeks ago by a reader if I could write a post about hair, hairdressers and hairstyles. She needed to see her hairdresser and wanted to know how to explain what she wanted doing to her hair. So I thought to myself what better time to write about hair than when I’m at the hairdresser’s! As I write this post, I am at my hairdresser’s having my hair done. When I say having my hair done, I mean that I am having my roots coloured (to hide the grey hair!) Me having my flashlights and roots done! I get my hair coloured and cut every five weeks and have the flashlights every ten weeks. So as my hairdresser put the gown over my clothes as protection, I told her that I was going to ask her a number of questions about hair and hairstyles. ColouringFirst of all, I asked her about all the different colouring treatments you can have. For those of us who want to cover our grey hair, we have the option of either a semi-permanent or permanent colour. Ciao for now
English listening exercises and tests with TED talks English Levels (Based on the CEFR) A2: Basic - Elementary B1: Intermediate B2: Upper Intermediate C1: Advanced A1-Beginner and C2-Proficiency levels not available. Difficulty: 2.59 Angela Patton: A father-daughter dance ... in prison Difficulty: 2.82 Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Difficulty: 2.98 Joachim de Posada: Don't eat the marshmallow! Difficulty: 3.08 David Hoffman: What happens when you lose everything Difficulty: 3.28 Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box Difficulty: 3.31 Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news) Difficulty: 85 Dan Dennett: Let's teach religion -- all religion -- in schools Difficulty: 3.33 Harish Manwani: Profit’s not always the point Difficulty: 3.34 Marc Pachter: The art of the interview Difficulty: 3.39 Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of "willful blindness" Ilona Szabó de Carvalho: 4 lessons I learned from taking a stand against drugs and gun violence Difficulty: 3.44 Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame Difficulty: 3.54 Difficulty: 3.55 C.K.
Voscreen: teaching with video clips I might be a bit late to the Voscreen party as I’ve 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. 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 I’m not a big fan of translating from English to one’s native language so I never considered using Voscreen as it was initially intended. #2 What happened next?
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Randall's Video Snapshots: For ESL/EFL Students The movie clips called Video Snapshots are designed to provide additional learning content related to other listening activities on my site. To learn more about this project, read the Frequently Asked Questions below: Current Videos (Click the picture to watch the video - Click the link below the picture to visit a related listening activity). Why did you create this section of your Website? How do you decide on the topics? Why are the videos short, between 30-60 seconds? Do you plan on adding other speakers on the videos? Do you realize there are some grammar mistakes in the videos? There is a lot of background noise in some the video, and it's sometimes hard to hear exactly what is being said. Which video format do you use? Randall's Sites: Daily ESL | ESL Blog | EZSlang | Train Your Accent | Tips For Students | Hiking In Utah
Listening through video: 7 things to keep in mind A few months ago I was talking to a friend who’d just dropped out of his English classes halfway through the course. Here’s a condensed version of our conversation: “It was not a bad course at all, and the teacher was very friendly and knowledgeable. It’s just that…” “What?” “Well, I got tired of traveling all the way across town, twice a week, to do things I could easily do at home, on my own.” I immediately thought, of course, of a classroom full of students plodding through dozens and dozens of gap-fill activities. “We did far too many video activities in class.” Wait a minute. Students love video, right? “But isn’t that a good thing? “Well, the videos were fun and all, but, hello, I have YouTube on my phone.” And then his phone rang and we went back to talking about politics. But my friend’s comments kept nagging at me for weeks and ultimately prompted me to write this post, which begins with a question – now more rhetorical than genuine: Maybe. 1. 2. 3. 4. But here’s the good news: 5. 6. 7.