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JeJuJitsu · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Location: McDonald's

Do any of you use YouTube as a teaching aide? NOT as in "press Play" and veg the whole period, but do you ever show 1-5 minute clips, and create a lesson from that? If so, what clip (please post link) and how do you turn it into a lesson?
I usually find a clip, and simply ask them to look for either the theme of that clip, or details in the clip. Something like showing them a Bugs Bunny cartoon, then asking them "What's Bugs Bunny carrying in his hand?" and "What did he do to avoid Elmer Fudd?"
That usually takes me 10 minutes deep into the class after using it as a warmup activity. Sometimes I use it in the middle of the class period if I know the lesson is a lil' dry.

What's a good YouTube Lesson you've done?

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

I did.Useful! I used a couple of clips with my adult class.

First i showed them the first few moments of the clip. Then i asked them questions on the situation- where was it, who was it, why were they doing that etc. Vocab on board. Then using the future tense, i got them to guess what happens next? They then had to describe 5 possible eventualities and "bet" on what happens. Then I showed the rest of the clip and the winners had guessed the right outcome.

However nobody guessed what was about to happen in both of these 2 clips.....

(>> can't post them because the search function on youtube is suddenly unavailable)

poet13 · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:27 am Post subject:

Yeah, I did an advertising LP. There are some hilarious ads out there.
I would play the first part of the ad and ask, "What are they selling?" Often there's no way to tell.
I would ask what techniques they were using. pssst...sex sells, so does humor....
etc. sorry, can't continue....

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

We've had multiple threads about this, even many recently. So not a lot I can add....

But yes, using video is great. Real language, motivating, current. But plan it and give a task.

I've recently loaded a lot of the sesame street videos up on my site...love them. Numbers, letters, spelling and lots of whole language learned on the way. Best is the Cookie Monster meeting the Count!

http://www.esnips.com//web/VideosforClassroomTeaching/?widget=button_viewit_silver

There you can download and play later in a larger, more viewer friendly format.

Also I have used Where the hell is matt successfully. Pause and ask students, "Where the hell is Matt?".....they can travel the world. So many others. including as we mentioned before, schoolhouse rock and the phenomenal, "Mr. Morton is the subject of my sentence"....I'm still singing it, stinging it....

DD

bosintang · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject:

I use youtube a lot, especially for after-school class discussion classes.

I use a Video downloader plug-in with firefox, which allows me to download the videos directly on to my computer, which I then convert to quicktime files, so I don't have the links handy. If I find them, I'll post them.

Some times I've used videos:

- In a discussion about the Crocodile Hunter, I showed a short tribute video to him. Lots of discussion material about who the Crocodile Hunter was, what he was doing, how he died, etc.
- In a discussion about Global Warming, I showed the preview for "An Inconvenient Truth". Talked about what was happening in the video, played back a few soundbites a few times and had the students tell me what the person was saying.
- In a discussion about bullying, I showed a British television commercial about stamping out bullying where famous young British stars read out a poem about someone being bullied. Had the students watch the commercial a couple of times, tell me what they got from it, then I passed out the poem and had them read the poem with the video.