Using Video in the ESL Classroom

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Using Video in the ESL Classroom
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What are the advantages to using video?

• Exposure to authentic language and culture
• Captures student interest
• Engaging and fun!

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Disadvantages?

• Problems with equiptment
• Movies can be too long for an average class
• Students may not pay attention to the video

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The Furture with Ghost

• Warm up
• Give one / Get one
• What do you know about fortune telling?

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• Watch this video clip and answer these questions.
• What does Oda Mae Down do for work?
• Do you think that she is a real fortune teller?
  Why or why not?
• Who/What is the man?
• After the video Discuss answers with a partner.
  Then as a class.

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Video Activities

• Questions
• Put the story in order
• Rewrite the Dialog
• Make predictions or summerize
• Listen for specific words, expressions, or grammar

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Will for the Future

• 1) Elicit how to use will from the students.
• Subject will base form of the verb
• Examples from Ss as a group
• 2) Elicit Questions with will
• (Question word) will subject base verb?
• Examples from Ss as a group

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• Give Ss from line A fortune telling cards. They
  will be the fortune tellers. Line B will ask
  their questions to line A and line A will imagine
  that they are fortune tellers and will tell them
  about the future using will.