Recipes Tagged ‘video’

Great Toy Robbery

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10 Dec 2009 Download PDF
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This lesson is simple and a wonderful way to celebrate X-mas.Get more resources/ideas on EFL Classroom's Xmas resource page.

 

1. Watch The Great Toy Robbery. Put students in pairs and have one watch the screen, the other look away. Partner A describes what he is watching to Partner B who can't see. Switch part way through.

 

2. Watch…

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Where the Hell is Matt?

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24 Aug 2009 Download PDF
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These series of videos are amazingly effective for classroom instruction. They also give students a view of the world and are a great global issues primer. Matt "danced" his way around the world. Here are several ways to use these videos in the classroom ...

Download all the Matt videos or stream in high quality on EFL Classroom in our A/V player. See my best list of videos for…

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Backdoor – a great teaching technique

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12 Aug 2009 Download PDF
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Mr. Bean works well with this technique.

Backdoor is a technique where in pairs students sit back to back. One student watches the screen and describes the action. The teacher can write vocab. on the board to prompt student talk. Continue for a few minutes then pause the video and the pairs switch positions.

Continue and then watch the end of the video together, describing without the sound.

This works well with 3-7…

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Lily knows her Geography!

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9 Aug 2009 Download PDF
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This is a fun lesson. Lily is an amazing child and your students will be fascinated. 1. Choose a student and get the student standing at the front of the class. Place a map of the world at the front of the class. 2. Show the video of Lily. When she is asked to find a country, the student at the front must find it before Lily. If…

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Activities for Short Videos

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30 Jul 2009 Download PDF
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Short videos like those on Youtube or EFL Classroiom, are perfect "engaging" starters for great language learning. Here are some suggestions on how to use videos which have vocabulary in them, like this favorite, the Elephant Song.

Play the video and give students a task. This is so important! The task must be VERY simple but keep them focused. Like, "write down 3 things you see" or as in the case…

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Keeping Youtube videos!

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22 Jul 2009 Download PDF
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Video is used a lot by teachers. However, sometimes the internet isn't reliable so you shouldn't count on it! But no worries, just use KeepVid and you can enter the youtube video url/address and it will download the video to your desktop. Just rename and it is yours to play whenever you want! Try doing it with this great video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3x4HvXTyGQ…

Personalized Lesson activities

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21 Jul 2009 Download PDF
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This video presentation I made, has many recipes and ideas for teachers.

All the activities are basic EFL activities that help teachers personalize lesson content and allow students to talk and learn English through their own lives and experiences. This is a crucial part of the language acquisition process....

 

Enjoy the viewing and find more like this on EFL Classroom 2.0…

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Total Physical Response

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19 Jul 2009 Download PDF
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Total Physical Response is a very active way to teach English. Young learners really enjoy it. Basically review the content and vocabulary by having the students repeat your sentences and perform an action at the same time. ex. It is raining! (action - hands/fingers moving down). You can also play some pretty cool games with TPR and see one in this video. Also, make sure to have…

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