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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject: YouTube as lesson material - Post Your Ideas Please! |
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I think YouTube, besides being a fun way to kill some spare time, is a great resource for lesson material.
You can use it for grammar lessons (see my example below) or discussion lessons.
If you've used YouTube in any of your lessons, please post your ideas here with YouTube links.
I got this idea to use Frozen Central Station to practice the simple past progressive "What was he / she doing when the clock stopped?" Students had to watch this hilarious video, re-watch it and then try to point out in the second viewing what the people were doing. Good fun! Try it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo |
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Teelo
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Youtube is for videos of 250000 chain lightning crits, and Rickrolls. |
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icnelly
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, youtube is great:
purple and brown for relevant questions, "How is he?", What is he doing?, etc. I usually show the video and then turn it into a short and easy pattern practice with choices on the board. Sometimes I go for choral repetition, sometimes not, but the A/V factor is a nice way to diversify: it keeps interest.
Sesame Street has tons of stuff for young learners!
My Youtube channel for elementary karaoke songs, and some songs made specifically for Elementary public school teachers. |
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valkerie
Joined: 02 Mar 2007
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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Great resource but be careful to watch EVERYTHING all the way thru before using. I got a shock when the lesson I did on clothes featured a sexed up traffic warden  |
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Whistleblower
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Youtube can be used for songs or music. Get a printout of the lyrics and ask the students to fill in the blanks whilst they listen to a song then compare their answers. Finish by playing the song again. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I've used it for grammar rock. Although disfunction junction is good too. |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Whistleblower wrote: |
| Youtube can be used for songs or music. Get a printout of the lyrics and ask the students to fill in the blanks whilst they listen to a song then compare their answers. Finish by playing the song again. |
What songs do you recommend for this? I have a hard time making out many artists' lyrics myself. I was thinking maybe some Sufjan Stevens, but my high school students probably won't like him. All they wanna do is listen to Bon Jovi. Bleh!!!  |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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The Carpenters have worked for me. The students actually requested "on Top of the World". It must be a noraebang classic or something.
John Denver and the Beatles have worked for me too. Most modern pop has too many raunchy, incomprehensible, difficult etc lyrics. |
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karri
Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Location: south korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Pingu
I use pingu goes fishing. we watch it a few times, then the students have to tell me what is happening. Then we write simple sentences using verbs. "pingu is fishing" "The seal is taking the fish food".
Next we maks mini books where the students write the story and illustratet it.
how to maks a mini book:
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=11345 |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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I posted this in another topic but here it is again. I sent 6 kids out of the room and showed
'fear factor part 2".
When the kids came back they other kids told them waht happened-they had to write it down an dthen speak in front of the class.
Questions were 1. What did they put on her feet? her head? her belly? How do you win the game? Who was playing? Where were they? |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| D.D. wrote: |
I posted this in another topic but here it is again. I sent 6 kids out of the room and showed
'fear factor part 2".
When the kids came back they other kids told them waht happened-they had to write it down an dthen speak in front of the class.
Questions were 1. What did they put on her feet? her head? her belly? How do you win the game? Who was playing? Where were they? |
Oohhh... I might do this with one of my advanced classes this week. Maybe with the flashmob video because it's an all girls class. That'll be a perfect way to spend the last fifteen minutes of the class! |
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seoulteacher
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
| Whistleblower wrote: |
| Youtube can be used for songs or music. Get a printout of the lyrics and ask the students to fill in the blanks whilst they listen to a song then compare their answers. Finish by playing the song again. |
What songs do you recommend for this? I have a hard time making out many artists' lyrics myself. I was thinking maybe some Sufjan Stevens, but my high school students probably won't like him. All they wanna do is listen to Bon Jovi. Bleh!!! |
Hahaha: you bring back some good pre-ESL memories...but, tell you what, introduce them to a rock/blues singer from an earlier era, one who they probably won't know: Joe Cocker.
Talented, really, and Joe knows how to get you deep down. Only thing is that Joe's idiosyncratic, somewhat-indistinct phrasing often sacrifices auditory precision, tho' that's gotta be part of his appeal: you can sing along and fill in as you wish - but makes it more than a bit difficult to grasp those lyrics!
Anyway, here he is, this time not too garbled, and the lyrics are given, to the right...Joe Cocker and 'Summer in the City':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8HsEbb-9sA&feature=related
And the pre-ESL reference? I had taken the CELTA 12 months previous in the UK in 1990, but still hadn't started my ESL days, was then a business studies lecturer...and would daily get a 1 hour ride over the Besparmak Mountains in northern Cyprus to our uni in Kyrenia/Girne with my anarchist Irish ESL-teaching buddy Frank. Frank & I would change places at the half way mark, ahead of a Turkish military check point, and I'd drive his Mercedes for the last half of the trip. And often Cocker was the music de jour. And we joked then that his songs would make for a darn hard close (fill-in the blanks while listening) exercise. Ah, yes, good days: Cocker and Frank...and me, still 7-8 years away from the magical world of ESL teaching...
And 1 more Cocker, also with lyrics, beautiful and good for in-class discussions (just translate the French phrase ahead of time ):
'N'Oubliez Jamais'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBpyuYgfCWA&NR=1 |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I was thinking of using Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt." Do you think it's a little too depressing for high school students? I love the song, but I don't want it to depress the students and cause them to commit suicide or something. |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
| I was thinking of using Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt." Do you think it's a little too depressing for high school students? I love the song, but I don't want it to depress the students and cause them to commit suicide or something. |
Hahahahaha... Making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel. I was doing this stream of conscious, thought experiment stuff with an advanced writing class and I accidentally made them all depressed. I was asking them questions about school and their lives after school, and I could feel the "why am I alive?" settling in.
This is a great (sad) video for kids of all ages: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs
It's really easy to ask questions and such about it.
To the guy who posted the Flash Mob video... I tied it into my lesson this week and it's working well! |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
| I was thinking of using Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt." Do you think it's a little too depressing for high school students? I love the song, but I don't want it to depress the students and cause them to commit suicide or something. |
I used this before but they just had to guess and write down the first few lines. The sad songs channel on youtube is very good. |
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