Best+Use+Of+Video


 * ~ Teacher's Name ||~ Idea for Video ||
 * < Seth ||< We got a short 3 minute video from You Tube about a topic my students were really interested in (Freud for a class of Psychology 1st year students.)

Although strictly speaking the video was far too difficult linguistically speaking for my A2+ students, with some careful teaching of vocabulary and some nice simple true or false questions to start off with, we managed to build a good understanding of the content of the video. I was then able to continue on to some more challenging Comprehension questions.

Nothing revolutionary, I know! It did work well though. || With an upper intermediate class I used a lesson from  []  on the topic of controversial adverts. There are 2 ads, one for Marmite (you'll either love it or hate it!!) and one for the VW Polo. The class is divided into 2 groups. Group A watch the advert for Marmite while B just listen with their backs turned. B then watch their advert for the VW Polo while A listen. As are then paired up with Bs and they tell each other about what they saw. The students are then told that these adverts proved to be controversial in the country where they were shown. The videos are then shown to the whole class and they have to discuss why they believe the ads could have been controversial. After the discussion students can read newspaper articles to learn the real reasons behind the controversy........leads to a great discussion and plenty of follow-up activities possible. || awards in germany. i divided the activity into two phases. First i told my students to watch the film(15 min.) and to try to understand the most important infos. But i showed them only half of the film. After 7,5 min i stopped and told them to work in pairs and to tell to each other what they understood from the film up to that moment.i gave them 5 min. Afterwards i changed pairs and and gave them the task to discuss how the film would end. that discussion took another 5/10 minutes. afterwards i did a feedback asking first what the students understood and how the film would end intheir opinion. i wrote the different ends of the same movie on the blackboard. then we saw the second part of the movie and compared the real end with the ones of the students. It was very funny and the excersise went well. ||
 * < Gail ||<
 * <  ||< i showed a very short film to my students. It was a film taken from a dvd from the goethe institut. On the dvd wasa collection of films which won === ===