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chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

I want to get my students interested in an English speaking TV show outside of class. I plan on using excerpts/clips from the show as a fill in the blanks dictation exercise in my standard lesson.

I just don't know what show to use. I am considering Lost or Heroes at the moment.

The students are all middle school boys, so Heroes might appeal to them although it seems to jump around a lot. Lost has Korean characters so it probably has built in appeal and it airs on TV here.

Any suggestions?

VirginIslander · Joined: 24 May 2006 Location: Busan

Dagon Ball Z

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

Dragon Ball Z are you serious?

I planned on getting subtitles too. I'm not sure how easy it is to get subtitles for animations.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

Heroes

genezorm · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo

Chat with the Beauties

my students call it Chat with Hoes

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

ABC Kids Video Lounge. It's online and it's in English--well, sometimes it's in Strine.

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

There's a couple of subs for Heroes here
http://www.gomtv.com/search.html?whr=0&key=heroes
eps 06 and 14

and

http://www.gomtv.com/search.html?whr=0&key=heroes

eps 08, 14 and 18

but try not to get confused with the Jet Li film Hero.

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

Isn't there some rather mature content in Heroes, like violence and sexual situations?

Same with Lost.

Would Seventh Heaven be a better choice?

Alyallen · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject:

Masta_Don · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul

I don't know how well your students understand/know English, but TV shows are chockablock full of cultural/pop references. It's quite hard for someone who doesn't have a good grasp on the culture to understand. Think about how many idioms and slang are in each of those shows. Think about the situations, like relationships, man vs. society situations, things that Koreans wouldn't be able to pick up on based on context with their preconceived notions.

That said, Dragonball Z doesn't have a whole lot of dialogue. But still, good luck. I had my highest level class, middle school kids, watch Ren and Stimpy's "Happy Happy Joy Joy" music video, only two minutes long, and it took an hour and a half to get thru it all. No one, including me, enjoyed it either.

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

A member of our community posted for some feedback on her blog. She's Mexican and did a super job using a tv show, to help students learn English. Look here, very user friendly and fine example of using Andrew Fields classtools www.classtools.net I like the clip about chili....

http://english_studio.blogspot.com/2007/08/make-leap-work-on-this-special-activity.html

If you want to do a good turn and give her some feedback, here's the thread.

http://eflclassroom.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=826870%3ABlogPost%3A5183

DD

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

I need episode one by Wednesday. Anyone know any good sources. I know of a few internet cafes that stream it, does anybody know how I might go about encoding a streamed file? How about the machine's specs to do so, what would they have to be?

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

Chaz,

You might consider the Extra English series. Very well done and the students will understand it and that will lead to enjoyment. Workbook there too. I quite like what they've done and in Europe this series costs a penny and is creme de la creme. Go to the batcave, click the link at the bottom of the page, for a gander...

DD