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alljokingaside
Joined: 17 Feb 2010
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 Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:51 pm Post subject: School House Rock |
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| Quick question- has anybody tried those School House Rock vids in class with any success? I'm primarily interested in comments about high schools, tho any and all will be much appreciated |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I liked the "Bill"one, which was later re-done as "The Ammendment Song" in The Simpsons. |
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Steve_Rogers2008
Joined: 22 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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I like the Animaniac songs for similar stuff..... esp. when we play the world country name song, and I play the clip the first time. the kids clamor for it again, and then I start it, then stop half way through and point to one table and say, "Your turn to sing!" 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S13Z7NMfcA |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| So far I've used quite a few I think the best one is Interjections. It contains lots of simple sentences with punctuation. This one would be followed by prepositions. This one has lots of pictures describing location with words. Conjunctions is also very clever. |
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TheChingu
Joined: 08 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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School house rock is pretty sweet. I've only shown the preposition one to my 6th graders, and I did that knowing that they wouldnt understand most of it.
High school aged kids should get a kick out of it. Gotta love conjunction junction, and lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here. |
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alljokingaside
Joined: 17 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies.
I'm planning on trying it out today and hope its goes well. I did, however, try that Animaniacs World Nations vid and the kids loved it. Especially when a few picked out Korea. KOREA! *applaud* |
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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| TheChingu wrote: |
School house rock is pretty sweet. I've only shown the preposition one to my 6th graders, and I did that knowing that they wouldnt understand most of it.
High school aged kids should get a kick out of it. Gotta love conjunction junction, and lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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I have and use all their stuff but mostly with higher level young/teen learners. Otherwise, not much is comprehensible except for the sterling - Mr. Morton is the subject of the sentence (the rap version). Unfortunately not available anymore but I did save a copy and it is on EFL Classroom 2.0. Definitely a top video for use in language teaching.
http://eflclassroom.ning.com/video/mr-morton-is-the-subject-of-my
But they were really innovative and I would love if this kind of methodology had a renaissance. Nice interviews about the origins of School House rock can be found online too.
DD
http://eflclassroom.com |
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