YouTube ESL Video Collection: great variety! Short-Sequence ESL movie lessons. Jump to: - Why Short Sequences -Describe a Character: Appearance & Action -Present, Past, and Future (speaking/writing) -Movie Karaoke -Paraphrasing Karaoke -Rewrite the Script -Jigsaw -Guess the Dialogue -Guess the Vocabulary -Movie Vocabulary List -Action Cards -Cloze Encounters -Word-for-Word Dictation -Blind Summary -Hear-the-Word Bingo -Change the Ending -Grammar Focus Introduction and Preview Welcome to the Movies Grow English home base for Short Sequence ESL lessons.
On this page you can link to more than 40 fully developed five-page Short Sequence movie-based ESL Lessons for $1 each. There are also links (directly below) to a limited number of free Short-Sequence ESL Lessons. In conjunction with this page, Teacher - Whole-Movie Lessons examines challenges, theoretical rationale, and pedagogical constructs pertaining to the use of whole movies in the ESL classroom. Short Sequences: Five Minutes of Magic Some say that big things come in small packages. Movie Karaoke Rewrite the Script. Level 4 – Videos in Levels. Videos - Fairy tales - Readingiscool.
Viral Videos for Higher Level ELT. All Viralelt posts consist of three parts: an embedded viral video, 10 conversation questions (Question time) and a listening activity (Sitting comfortably?).
Show your students the video a few times and ask them for their reactions. Although most videos are less than 2 minutes long, and are often without dialogue, they should be sufficiently engaging to provoke quite lengthy open-class discussions. You may like to exploit a video further by doing one of the following activities: 1. Videotelling : telling the “story” of a video orally. 2. Put your students into pairs or small groups and ask them to discuss the 10 conversation questions. Sitting comfortably? As regards language input, emphasis has been given to lexis rather than grammar. POV - Acclaimed Point-of-View Documentary Films. Short Films on Short of the Week. Jane's Pick of the Day: 25 places to find instructional videos.
Recently I have received a number of emails asking about places that offer free instructional videos (on all subjects), so I thought I would put together a posting of the main ones that I know about: 5min Life Videopedia - instructional and how-to videos Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholarsblip.tv - next generation TV networkGoogle Video - videos on all topics Graspr - The instructional video network Howcast - How-to videos iCue - A fun, innovative, learning environment built around video from the NBC News ArchivesInstructables - Make, HowTo and DIY iTunes U - Faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital lessons to their students, e.g Stangord, Trinity College Dublin, etc.
Movies » Simple English Videos. English Short Films. Watch the Best Short Films. Mashpedia. Video SparkNotes: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet summary. 40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies. 40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book by Terry Heick You can’t watch a video like you read a book; the modalities couldn’t be much more different.
On the surface level a video uses light, color, sound, and moving images, with the potential for adding text and shape and color and light filters as overlays to communicate ideas, while the most basic text structures use alphanumeric symbols, paragraph and sentence structure, and an assortment of text features (e.g., white space, headings and subheadings, fonts, etc.) to convey their message. There is much, much more to it than this. Videos are meant to be consumed in short bursts, while literature, for example, is meant to be “sat with.”
The Interaction Between Video & Text This suggests that video consumption would more readily transfer to video production, or even video as a means of assessment. Below are a few possibilities, many of which you’ll notice apply to non-digital media as well. Before Viewing 1. Learn English with Steve Ford -The Funny Honeymoon Part 1 - Take Phrasal Verbs. Englishforeso - Stay in school. Learn English Through Movies. Best ESL/EFL/English sites. English-Guide.org. Linking Words 1. English Grammar Lessons - Free Language Video Lectures. 6 Minute English - Scottish independence - LinkEngPark. Trapped - Australian TV Series s01e01. Film Network. Easy Languages. English as Second Language Educational Videos.