Do You Really Use Youtube in Your EFL Classes? How? | Compelling Conversations

Chimayo Press — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:18:34 +0000

Your classes sound like fun – and grounded in a realistic appreciation for accents and perceptions from across the globe.

Thanks for sharing your best classroom practices!

Do You Really Use Youtube in Your EFL Classes? How? | Compelling Conversations

mary r — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:58:02 +0000

In my classes, I use famous songs on you tube as a listening exercise. The cool thing about it is that there’s usually the original and then all these variations of it from different accents from people all over the world. We listen to maybe 3 variations and discuss which is the easiest to understand, etc…nice for comparison and sometimes the students disagree with each other about which version they like best!

Do You Really Use Youtube in Your EFL Classes? How? | Compelling Conversations

Karenne — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:03:53 +0000

Absolutely!

I remember once having “entrepreneurship” as a theme in the textbook. The book featured Richard Branson, who obviously, is only “cool” in the UK and few had heard of him in our lesson in Germany.

I told the students they could investigate RB and bring in whatever they learned, whether it was wikipedia, podcasts, videos, articles, FB, blogs – anything at all – their choice.

I had some amazing results and learned a lot – but sticking to this theme – one of the students found an interview, and then another and then another – in total she watched 4 videos!

She came into the next class with much to share. She was so motivated and very proud of the vocabulary she’d noticed and then looked up to ‘teach’ the rest of us.

If I’d asked her to do an hour+ of homework, I’d probably have had whining students but because I let them choose – even through “youtube” – they did way more than requested and learned more than I could have taught.

Karenne