Teaching through songs and videos

1. Teaching through songs and videos Teaching through songs • Teaching through videos By: Mr Stari Abdelaziz Smara Abdelaziz.stari@gmail.com

2. Teaching through songs Why do we teach songs? • To teach grammar concepts and Vocabulary items. • To teach the four skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing. • To teach Pronunciation. • To teach Culture.

3. Before Playing Song: There are many activities you can do: 1- Groundwork 2- Assign tasks for students to do.

4. While listening: • Give students tasks to do: • Sentence completion activities. • A chart to fill out. • Multiple choice questions. • Ask them to draw or colour on a picture….etc. • Matching activities. • Split the song into strips and ask them to put it into the appropriate order. • ....etc.

5. Post-listening: • Ask students to sing along with the song. • Split the class into 2 or more groups, and have a COMPETING sing along, each group singing alternate phrases • Ask students to dance with the song…etc • Discuss the message of the song; talk about the culture of the song and compare it to the student’s one.

6. Teaching through videos Prediction: We use videos to teach : • Viewing comprehension • Dictation: • Language skills

7. Teaching through videos Viewing comprehension Pre-viewing: Give students a task to do before viewing to help them understand. • While-viewing: • freeze –frame: stop from time to time and check understanding. • Have students answer some questions. • Give students cloze strips and have fill in the missing words. • Post-viewing: • Have students role play the situation. • Discussion: • Have students discuss the scene: the plot, characters, actions, thoughts, feelings….etc • Have students tell which character they identify with explanation

8. Teaching through videos Prediction • With a picture and audio on: • Have students predict what will happen next. • Have them predict parts of the conversation. • With Audio off and picture on. • Have students predict the situation an characterization. • Ask them to predict the conversation in the scene. • With picture off and audio on : • Have students describe the scene : setting, people, ….etc.

9. Teaching through videos Listening practice through dictation: • have students listen to the dialogue in the scene and write it down. • Make students focus on the dialogue in the scene and listen for particular words, vocabulary or expressions. • Give students some lines in the dialogues and ask them to fill in missing words or sentences…etc.

10. Speaking practice: Role Plays: Have students role play a scene, practicing the lines of dialogue for correct intonation and emphasis. On-Location Interviews: Have students circulate around the classroom and interview each other using questions contained in the video segment. Information Gap: Have half the class see a segment without audio and the other half hear it without the picture. Strip Dialogue Scenes: Write dialogue lines on separate strips of paper, distribute them randomly, and have students recreate the scene by putting the lines together.

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