Comments on: Lesson Plans Based on You Tube Videos

By: sabridv

sabridv — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:45:45 +0000

Peter! Thanks for sharing this wonderful experience. It’s really great when students enjoy our classes. I’m sure it must have been very rewarding to see your students laughing and having great fun in the class. Congratulations on such a succesful lesson.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:34:30 +0000

Hi Sabrina
I went to theTEFL clips site last week and used one of the clips in a lesson which I based on the phrase: ‘What happens next?
The clip they had was the one of an Inuit fisherman sitting at the classic hole in the ice when hs fishing rod starts to twitch shortly after which a whale bursts through the ice.

The syudents, who are Nepalese, and don’t have a coastline back home, loved it and lots of discussion and laughter ensued.

Then, using a picture of a man and his daughter attempting to nail a picture on the wall, the students answered questions with T / F answers in the text followed by the question.:’What happened next?’ Ideas were recorded on the board and then the next picture was revealed…the pipe bursting after having been pierced by the nail and squirting water all over the man in the picture, the girl and their cat.More questions were posed for discussion with simple T / FNot Enough Evidence answers.Finally, the students were once again asked ‘What happened next?’ and ere given the task as homework.

It was an enjoyable lesson which stimulated the students - thanks in part to that You Tube clip.The other material was from a book called ‘Headworks’ and it tied in perfectly.

Thanks!

By: sabridv

sabridv — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:56:31 +0000

Thanks EFL Geek I already have you in my reader. I really love your blog.

By: EFL Geek

EFL Geek — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:17:56 +0000

Thanks for the link. I’ve previously written about youtube and ESL, keeping youtube on your harddrive, and bubbleply (modify youtube) on my blog.

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