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I’ve written many times previously on what I call – The Video Teaching Revolution. Video is becoming the new, dynamic textbook. It won’t replace print but it will have its own place, time and attention as a learning material and medium of instruction. This recent...
I have decades of experience using video in the classroom. From this experience ’twas born this list of the top 100 Youtube videos to use to teach English. Not a definitive list in the sense of being “scientific” but I rank these videos based on...
I’m a big fan of using video to learn language. “If I only had a dollar for every person who told me they learned English by watching Friends!” Extensive watching works, it really does. Educational video works but it is too often dull, dim, uncompelling,...
You may be a construction worker working on a home You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome You might own guns and you might even own tanks You might be somebody’s landlord, you might even own banks But...
This lesson has a distinct vocabulary focus and gets students thinking about root words, chunks and collocations/word associations. They gain an awareness of how words can be used in many ways…. It uses the amazing video – Words. (WARNING: use this version, NOT the youtube version....
The Olympics will be here upon us in no time. So much excitement and its a great topic to harness student motivation. This is a very inspiring and poetic promo video for Rio. One of 4 promo videos. the others are Respect, Breath and Counting...
Teaching affects eternity. It really does. Our lives affect eternity but not near as perfectly and precisely, not near as powerfully nor presciently as teaching. I’ve been thinking lately about my own affect – how I stumbled along and began EFL Classroom about 15 years ago...
I just spent a few weeks with my incomparable Mom. Missing her and today thought of this video based lesson that is fantastic for the topic of “Thanking Moms”. I know Mother’s Day is still a month or more away – but really this lesson...
Further to my last post here, I didn’t think this was a good enough presentation. So I spent the weekend designing a player loaded with what I consider all the “best” videos for teaching ELT. – http://eflclassroom.com/videolessons/ In the player, you can click through and view the...
From time to time, I like to get personal on my blog. We are sharing and we should also share our selves as teachers when we teach. You’ll find a number of posts about my life and times on this blog. So in this spirit,...
Symmetry is an outstanding video to teach basic vocabulary to English language learners. Plus, the important related concept of “symmetry”. One example of the hundreds of video based lessons with materials available to EFL Classroom 2.0 members. See a list here. This video has been...
I previously wrote about a magnificent book and teaching idea – It’s Not A Box. Just discovered this wonderful video that I think compliments this perfectly! This video would be great to show prior to giving students their own box and them designing it as...
This is a beautiful animated short that teaches students a great lesson about conflict resolution and getting along with others. 1. Watch the video and stop at 18 sec and 2:10. Both times, ask students what they think will happen. What the animals will do....
It’s Superbowl time and after football that means, “commercials”! I’ll be making a few lessons based on the latest Superbowl commercials – after the Golden Lions, probably the best commercials made on the planet. Commercials are great to use in the classroom. They are short,...
I discovered this short video through my PLN today and immediately knew I had to make a lesson plan for it. Thank you my FB teacher friends, it’s a gem. The video is a simple story and here is my simple way to use it...
This is a great video to practice job interviewing. Play the video and students can listen with their role play sheet (either A or B) and try to fill in the blanks for their role. Put students in pairs based on which sheet they have...
I’m a huge fan of video and especially during holiday time when teachers are in need of strong language learning material in video. Video is something the class can share and celebrate the end of the semester as class. Of course, there are so many...
I’m a big proponent of short intensive language lessons based on videos. So many great reasons to use video in this form instead of long versions/viewing. EnglishCentral does this well and teachers can get a downloadable transcript/lesson plan for each video – click “Video Details” on...
This is a lesson that practices the skill of “watching’. Read more about this 5th skill here. It’s simple to do and makes a nice video based lesson. Get the video on the EFL Classroom teaching community and also see the 100s of video based...
Recently on EFL Classroom 2.0, I created for members 2 excellent resources about giving advice. EFL Classroom 2.0 members get all the resources to download, including presentations and videos. 1. Dear Abby: What advice would you give? 2. Stress: Ways to relieve stress. Here are...
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