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1) Making the Most of Online Video: Using History and Biography to Teach Language Skills by Heather Gregg Zitlau – TESOL 2015 / Electronic Village
The History Channel and The Biography Channel websites are outstanding resources for EFL teachers. Both sites…
• can be used to engage students with meaningful, authentic content
• can be used in class or for homework
• can be used to teach virtually any skill at any level
• can be used effectively without unreasonable prep time
Biography.com has numerous videos of varying lengths, including many short (3-4 minute) mini-biographies of political leaders, authors, athletes, entertainers – almost anyone you and your students might like to learn more about. Videos are accompanied by related text.
Example 1: Amelia Earhart, J.K. Rowling, Jim Jong Il, & Steve Irwin
• question formation
• information gap
• pre-listening
• discussion
Example 2: Lionel Messi
• listening for details
• verb tense test (editing task)
Example 3: Bill Gates
• question formation
Example 4: Martin Luther King & Margaret Thatcher
• listening for details and main ideas
• information gap
At History.com you’ll find countless videos of varying lengths, including many short (3-4 minute) videos about the history of American holidays.
Example 1: Bet You Didn’t Know: Witches
• grammar review: verb tenses, modals, and comparative and superlative adjectives
• cloze
Example 2: History of Valentine’s Day ; Bet You Didn’t Know: Valentine’s Day
• verb tense review
• students identify and write examples for the assigned verb tenses
Example 3: Bet You Didn’t Know: Thanksgiving
• active and passive – identify examples of the passive voice; change active to passive
Example 4: Bet You Didn’t Know: Saint Patrick’s Day; History of Saint Patrick’s Day
• vocabulary
• listening for main ideas and details
Email jherbon@cccc.edu to request handouts with the activities described above 🙂
This site is intended to help beginning level adult English language learners improve their English language and basic technology skills. It is maintained by Jody Fernando, an adult ESL teacher in the California community college system.
4) Promoting HOTS with Apps
Stick Pick the go-to teacher tool for building equity, differentiating instruction, promoting critical thinking, improving classroom management, collecting formative assessment data, and supporting the Common Core (CCSS).
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers by engaging their classrooms with a series of educational exercises and games. The apps are super simple and take seconds to login. Socrative runs on tablets, smartphones, and laptops.
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wkDwbWM_YQ
5) TED Talks
https://sites.google.com/a/emich.edu/using-ted-talks-in-english-language-teaching/
TedTalk for ESL Beginners: True Colors
TedTalk for Intermediate ESL Ss: Don’t eat the Marshmallow
Tedtlk for Advanced ESL Ss: I Wish I had (see example activity in the long link above)
Stage 1: Meet The Words (initial exposure to new words)
Stage 2: Work with Words (manipulating and recycling words)
Stage 3: Make The Words My Own (deeper understanding and long-term retention)
Summary from TESOL Blog
8) Five Ways to Integrate Workplace Readiness Skills in ESL Classes TESOL 2014 by Donna Price
http://www.quia.com/pages/donna/workshops
ESL at Central Carolina Community College 