Video


 Videos allow students of different backgrounds to hear authentic examples of everyday English used by everyday people. Since many students really enjoy watching videos, teachers can use this to their advantage and expose them to natural language and give them a sense of visual and auditory learning. Different types of video that can be used in the classroom are: -Documentaries  -Clips of Movies -Public Service Information Announcements -Political Ads -YouTube Clips Examples of what students can do with the videos are creating video notetaking diaries, in which the students take notes about what they have learned about content and language. The approach I identify most with videos is the Language Experience Approach and Language Acquisition.

I have chosen the following websites because they offer different opportunities of how we can use videos in the ESL classrooms. Two of these websites provide lessons of how teachers can use known movies and provide lessons of how second language learners can learn about language. Unfortunately, a lot of these video lesson plans are targeted for older students (middle and high school) and I can not use them with my Kindergarteners. However I have looked at some of these plans and feel that they would make appropriate lessons for these students. I would be able to use videos that the students have already seen and they would be able to focus on the actual lesson and not try to just watch the video. I feel that three different websites are appropriate and reliable because these lessons come from actual classrooms. They provide details of which movies to use, how to use them, and actual lesson plans/activities are incorporated as well.

http://www.englishmeeting.com/resources_old.htm

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/video.htm http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/film.htm 