How to Create Many Activities from One Video
2023-02-26
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1Teachers often use videos to give students a break from the usual classroom activities.
2Learners use videos, too, to improve their listening and speaking skills.
3In this week's Education Tips, we look at how one of our videos can be the start of a full English lesson.
4We will look at the video for The Big Snow, Lesson 11 of Let's Learn English Level 2.
5In this lesson, Anna and Pete are reporting on a snowstorm, or blizzard. Anna loves to talk about weather.
6Pete is unhappy because he is working on a weekend.
7The video teaches the present perfect and past perfect verb tenses.
8In recent workshops with English teachers in Ukraine, VOA Learning English instructors asked the teachers to brainstorm ideas for activities they could create with this video.
9The teachers came up with about 40 ideas.
10They range from activities centered on grammar to activities that cover the subject of weather.
11Here are some examples of classroom activities for before, during and after watching the video:
12Before watching
13Students list the words they know for kinds of weather and prepare to listen for weather words in the video
14The teacher describes the video's plot, then students predict what will happen if Pete and Anna must stay at work all weekend
15Students talk about their personal experiences with major storms or describe storms they have read about in books or seen in movies.
16While watching
17Listen for weather words in the video and write them down or circle them on the printed text of the lesson
18The teacher stops the video and, with an image showing on the screen, asks students to do an activity:
19Guess what happens next
20Describe what the characters are wearing in the image
21Ask questions about what has happened so far
22Give an actor in the video advice
23Talk about which actor is their favorite
24Describe the setting
25Describe the feelings of the people in the video
26After watching
27Students summarize the story in writing or talk about it in small groups
28Students identify problems and solutions in the story
29Students act out their favorite scene from the video or act out the story with a different kind of weather event
30Teacher or students write true/false statements about the story to check understanding
31Students think of different ways the story could end. Then they write the different ending and act it out in small groups
32Students think of other names for a big storm that might happen where they live
33Student groups make lists of supplies they would need in case of a natural disaster: foods, equipment, clothing
34Students play a game with a paper "snowball" (information below)*
35As you can see from this list, there are plenty of ideas for giving students the chance to speak, write, read, and listen while enjoying a short, humorous video.
36If you want to see more ideas, each Let's Learn English video comes with a lesson plan that you can download.
37For the snowstorm video, one activity sheet asks students to use the present perfect and past perfect tense to think of questions and answers using "snow words."
38Another activity sheet gives students weather information from around the world and asks them to give a weather forecast like the ones you can see on television.
39We are sure you can think of other ways to use this video in learning or teaching English.
40Write to us in the comments if you want to share your own ideas.
41I'm Jill Robbins.
1Teachers often use videos to give students a break from the usual classroom activities. Learners use videos, too, to improve their listening and speaking skills. 2In this week's Education Tips, we look at how one of our videos can be the start of a full English lesson. We will look at the video for The Big Snow, Lesson 11 of Let's Learn English Level 2. 3In this lesson, Anna and Pete are reporting on a snowstorm, or blizzard. Anna loves to talk about weather. Pete is unhappy because he is working on a weekend. The video teaches the present perfect and past perfect verb tenses. 4In recent workshops with English teachers in Ukraine, VOA Learning English instructors asked the teachers to brainstorm ideas for activities they could create with this video. 5The teachers came up with about 40 ideas. They range from activities centered on grammar to activities that cover the subject of weather. 6Here are some examples of classroom activities for before, during and after watching the video: 7Before watching 8While watching 9After watching 10As you can see from this list, there are plenty of ideas for giving students the chance to speak, write, read, and listen while enjoying a short, humorous video. 11If you want to see more ideas, each Let's Learn English video comes with a lesson plan that you can download. For the snowstorm video, one activity sheet asks students to use the present perfect and past perfect tense to think of questions and answers using "snow words." 12Another activity sheet gives students weather information from around the world and asks them to give a weather forecast like the ones you can see on television. 13We are sure you can think of other ways to use this video in learning or teaching English. Write to us in the comments if you want to share your own ideas. 14I'm Jill Robbins. 15Anna Matteo and Jill Robbins wrote this lesson for Learning English in collaboration with English teachers from Ukraine in our Go English workshop. 16* Snowball game - write sentences with the new words or grammatical structures on sheets of paper. Form each into a ball. Play music and have students throw the balls around the room to each other. When the music stops, the person holding a snowball opens it and responds to the question or explains the new word. 17_______________________________________________________________________ 18Words in This Story 19blizzard - n. a very heavy snowstorm with strong winds. 20instructor - n. a person who instructs or a teacher 21brainstorm - v. to think of many ideas 22character - n. a person represented in a play, film, story, or the like 23plot - n. the arrangement of the incidents in a play, novel, narrative poem, or the like 24summarize - v. to make a summary of or state briefly 25(weather) forecast - n. a weather forecast is a statement saying what the weather will be like the next day or for the next few days. 26_____________________________________________________________________ 27What do you think of this story? We want to hear from you. We have a new comment system. Here is how it works: 28Each time you return to comment on the Learning English site, you can use your account and see your comments and replies to them.