Enliven+Classroom+Instruction+and+Engage+Students+with+Video

=TESOL Best of Affiliates Presentation (CATESOL), 2013 = Incorporate online video into lessons as the basis of both receptive and productive skills practice activities and as a springboard to theme-based integrated-skills student video projects.

Handout: Have your own ideas for integrating video, a video you have used with success in your class you'd like to share, or an idea for student video project? I would love to hear from you! Email me at kreyes@miracosta.edu.

__**Video for Teaching / Skills Practice **__
// [|from past presentation] with suggestions for activities before, while, and after viewing //
 * **Potential Advantages for Teachers ** || ** Benefits for Students ** ||
 * Break from the routine ||  Connect and respond to local and global events/news ||
 * Numerous free, easy-to-find materials; Content can be chosen and materials created to meet specific needs and interests of learners ||  Opportunities to build fluency, learn new vocabulary in a rich context ||
 * Basis of or supplement to thematic, integrated-skills lessons ||  Visual support for language learning ||
 * Gain and maintain student interest = increase motivation = increase student persistence/retention ||  Engaging, high-interest materials ||
 * Enhance students' active listening skills; connect listening to reading and writing ||  Authentic language input: normal speech rates, contractions, reductions, idioms, various accents ||

//**Speaking and Writing Prompts **//
A. Use short videos clips as speaking or writing prompts to practice verb tenses, especially past with past continuous. He/She was... (verb) + ing when... They were (verb) + ing when... [|Video clips]

B. Provide students a list of words. Invidividually, in pairs, or small groups, students predict the story by writing it, using all the words on the list and a target verb tense. After students compose a paragraph with instructor feedback for revisions, students read their stories. Then the instructor shows the video clip. Incredibly, each team always writes a very different version. The team closest to the actual story wins! The "story" of the video clip could also be the basis of a verb conjugation exercise (see document at Example 1). Follow up with dialog writing. What did the people in the video say to each other? What happened next? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Example 1: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Video] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Example 2: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Video] [|More videos like these]

//Animated Shorts//
"[|The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore"] by William Joyce of Shreveport, LA (referred to me by an ESL teacher at TESOL Convention, who has used this animated short sucessfully with his middle school students) [|"The Lighthouse" from The Literacy Shed] with ideas for lesson activities (referred to me by Evelyn Fella) - the site contains much more -- see also [|The Great Animations Shed] Examples of other animated shorts that can be used for speaking, writing:
 * [|"Cat's Moew"]
 * [|"Distraxion"]
 * [|Awesome Summer Vacation]

//Grammar and Pronunciation Practice//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Practice reading, speaking, verb tenses (simple present), and pronunciation (third person -s endings): <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Difficult Daily Routine of an Aspiring Actor [|SuperChill Monkey Does Hollywood] Another Video that would work well for this type of activity: If you could have a personal assistant, what woul you have him do? [|Useful Dog Tricks]

//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Theme-Based Integrated Skills: Listening, Note-taking, Discussion, Writing **//
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|eHow Videos] for listening materials on many topics, to supplement reading, as examples for students' own how-to writing assignments <span style="color: #898989; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|ABC: What Would You Do?] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Racism against migrant workers" also on [[[] |Hulu]] -- Season 4, Episode 5, Fri., Aug. 30, 2010 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Team Hoyt] - Father and disabled son marathoners - [|Youtube Video 1] (original from HBO's "Real Sports" and another [|Video] and handout: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">watch, summarize (orally or in writing) what happened, write or tell what you would do (unreal conditional) or what people in this situation should do (modals of advice)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">follow-up: students write about a significant person in their lives

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Dr. Q] - Once migrant worker, now a surgeon (ABC Today Show) [|Video] and handout:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">follow-up: students write about their own or others' immigration/ "coming to the USA" stories

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What do eyeglasses say about you? (ABC News) [|Video] and handout with follow-up survey project:

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Student Video Projects __
Student video projects have several potential benefits:
 * student-centered, cooperative learning technique and a means of giving students control over their learning building community
 * a way for students to apply what they have learned using creativity and originality and for teachers to assess students’ attainment of vocabulary, grammar structures, and/or pronunciation
 * students work cooperatively, or even in competition with other groups, in tasks that integrate the productive skills of writing and speaking
 * working on teams, students communicate to write scripts, make storyboards, and assign and carry out roles and duties, thus engaging in meaningful communication for a shared purpose
 * promotion of teamwork and meaningful communication
 * an end result of which students can feel proud
 * useful for gauging students’ oral skills, vocabulary attainment, workplace skills

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">from past presentation, see Student Video //

//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sample Projects: **//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Home Remedies:** Students read about garlic as a cure-all, watched [|National Geographic video on Bee Therapy] and answered listening comprehension questions, brainstormed maladies/sicknesses/injuries that do not require medical/emergency care, wrote paragraphs and made videos on a home remedy (inspired by [|Susan Gaer's International Home Remedies Project]) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"[|Working for Peanuts]" and "[|Let the Cat Out of the Bag]"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Idioms: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students learned five new idioms each week, then used ESL idioms Web sites, found an idiom, wrote dialogs, and performed on video (inspired by [|Roger Drury's Phrasal Verb Dictionary])

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Etiquette: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students watched this video about [|personal space etiquette] and took notes, read about cell phone etiquette, wrote paragraphs about etiquette dos and don'ts for particular places or situations, and made team videos

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Winning Team's Video Project]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soft Skills: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students listened and took notes on several transferrable skills. In teams, they chose one, wrote a script and set up a work situation in which the soft skill was or wasn't used well (inspired by North Orange County ESL program's Soft Skills wiki).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and thanks to a TESOL Conventioin attendee who teaches business English for referring the TV show[| "Shark Tank"] on Hulu for introducing this type of business project
 * The Apprentice Project** (developed by my colleague Jose Lopez-Mercedes)
 * Sweet Genius: @http://youtu.be/9YGo2LgIi0s
 * MTDF Restaurant: @http://youtu.be/K1v1e6A3-T0
 * My Best Friend: @http://youtu.be/SONaSXdi7xI


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Video Resumes: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students wrote resumes and created video resumes. [|Sample video resume] from one student's class blog.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Commericals for Our School / ESL Program: **

[|http://mccesl5.blogspot.com]
 * Speaking with the Stars:** Students chose and rehearsed short movie scenes, practicing and memorizing scripts.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Natural Disasters (how to survive): **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students used the [|FEMA] Web site to search for information on how to survive a natural disaster ot choice, wrote paragraphs, and made team videos.

[|School Tour] - for a online class exchange, students gave a tour of our school for students in a VESL class in Spain.

[|New Year Around the World] - students spoke about the traditions for celebrating the new year in their countries.


 * Other ideas for student video projects**
 * Cultural or Family Tradition
 * How to go to college
 * How to be a good student
 * What to do in various emergencies
 * Dramatize a folk story or fable
 * Dramatize chapter summaries of a short novel
 * How to ... anything
 * Folk story from my country
 * Public Service Announcement
 * Interview community leaders, school officials
 * Best places in my city
 * Tips for success (as a student, employee, language learner, etc.)
 * Classroom or school rules
 * Do's and Don'ts of ...