Teaching through songs and videos

Teaching through songs

Teaching through videos

By: Mr Stari Abdelaziz Smara Abdelaziz.stari@gmail.com

Teaching through songs

• To teach grammar concepts and Vocabulary items.

• To teach the four skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing.

• To teach Pronunciation.

• To teach Culture.

Why do we teach songs?

Before Playing Song:

There are many activities you can do:

1- Groundwork

2- Assign tasks for students to do.

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.

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.

Teaching through videos

We use videos to teach :

Prediction:

Dictation:

Viewing comprehension

Language skills

Viewing comprehensionTeaching through videos

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….etcHave students tell which character they identify with explanation

PredictionTeaching through videos

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.

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.

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.

Thank you for your attention