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[eslwriter]

Anybody use short video clips for a listening class or as conversation or writing prompts?

Finding quality videos is consuming. How about building a collection of links here?

Here's a link to a black and white video. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to get the link from my blog and the original Vimeo link.


http://www.eslwriting.org/4580/esl-writing-lesson-mind-mapping/

Cheers
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[mariaanceney]

I love this idea, and I asked a similar question a while back and didn't really get that many responses. The video you posted was very pretty and could inspire a lot of conversation.

Here are some videos I have used in my class:

The Legacy of the Silk Road:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yEZI43kAvE

Journey on the Silk Road (music):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOeOwMd-NZs

Wall Street: Greed is Good speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vscG3k91s58

Glee: Umbrella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbZcYy6AAGg

Personality Test: (kind of a joke--didn't go over that well)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHF0VXPanU8&feature=related

Food Inc. Review: Waaay to fast--even for the highest level I teach, but I had them look up Industrial Food Systems and factory farming afterward and got some good responses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjlpxFOM25E

Molecular Gastronomy stuff: I tried to show them a bit about Molecular Gastronomy, but I didn't really have time to find the best clip. I used portions of these clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRpEpQPULNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_77N8ymx9b8&feature=related

Phobia Sketch/Japanese social experiment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIjVnZjtpI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT_mkrrM_cE

21 Accents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYmrg3owTRE&feature=related

Our Deepest Fear: It kind of worked, it's fast so I gave them a hand out of the words, but the vocab is a little difficult
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFAB6nbXjxU&feature=related

King's Speech Trailer: It would have been better to show a clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsxjM03ME7s

Nick Vuijic video: Went over well and inspired a lot of conversation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZuKF3dxCY&feature=related

Animator vs. Animation: Not for a lesson, but fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgwxXKsZhAo

Powers of ten: I haven't shown this one yet, but I like it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPm3QVKlBJg

I also want to show Island of Flowers at some point, but it's really difficult to understand--the narrator speaks so quickly.

Grammar Humor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSSQe6vsSw

Power of Words video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_tCtvmAm4M

My Fair Lady clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owWPgUyK7DY&feature=related

I'm still learning how to talk through the videos. If anyone has any good video ideas, please post them!