EXTENSION WORK

1- Complete the following sentences using the information provided in the video. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=55TdqC9Luck
a.Life depends on ( ) being trapped by the layer of gases that surround the Earth.
b.As the world gets hottest, the climate would change ( ) effects we have witnessed may become more frequent.
c.If we could see the gases, ( ) would be obvious to everyone.
d.The solutions exist and ( ), but we have to act now, today.

Description: In this activity the students should complete the spaces in blank using the information provided in the video. So the teacher will play the video once and they should just listen to it. After listening they should complete the sentences given by the teacher with the information they heard. They should write more than one word in each space. It is a pair work activity.

Objectives: The idea of this activity is to improve the listening and writing skills in the students.

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2- To write a paragraph about a video segment expressing their opinions. After finishing, they should report in class what they have done. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=55TdqC9Luck (Climate change)

Description: In this occasion the teacher should select a video segment and ask students to watch it until the end. After that, they should write a paragraph expressing their opinions about what they have seen. The students can support their ideas taking into account the information provided in the video and their personal experiences and knowledge about the topic. After finishing, they should report in class what they have done.

Objectives: The main goals of this activity are to improve the writing and speaking skills, to practice the knowledge acquired before in class and to reinforce the one learnt through the video.

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3- To perform a dramatization putting into practice the content acquired through the video. They can add new details. (Anyone Can Dance - Salsa: Beginner Clip)

Description: After watching the video, the students should do a dramatization in which they represent the characters from the video and will try to perform as the original version. So the teacher lets them to select their favourite character but helps them with the scrip they should say by heart. So, they will need some time for learning what they have to say. They can add new information but it should be related to the video.

Objectives: This activity improves the students’ speaking skills and develops the process of fixing a new content through the memory.

4- Watch the video and create different questions about its content. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=55TdqC9Luck (Climate change)

Description: In this activity after students having watched the video, the teacher will ask them to create different questions related to the video. The teacher will divide the group in four small groups (A, B, C, D) and give them 5 minutes to create the questions. After that, the teacher writes the letters in different pieces of papers and put them in a bag. One student should select one of the papers without looking at it and the letter chosen indicates which team will start asking the questions and the rest should answers them. Then, this will be the methodology to follow with this activity. The teacher should correct any mistake produced by the students at the end of the activity, allowing them to feel free while communicating in the target language.

Objectives: The idea of this activity is to provide and improve the acquisition of the vocabulary related to the video and at the same time, to develop the communicative functions regarding the units previously studied, including the development of the writing and speaking skills in the students.

5- Different tasks using the same scene from the video (Dance moves: An Emergency Guide For Men.)

Description: In this activity the teacher should divide the classroom in two parts and let a half of the class watch a scene of the video without audio and let the other half listen to it without the pictures. Students from each half of the class will talk about the situation and characters, and will do a performance of the scene.

Objectives: This activity allows students to make a deeper comprehension of the video, based on the content acquired through the visual information and the listening.

6-Dramatizations based on the video content. (Dance moves: An Emergency Guide For Men.)

Description: In this activity the teacher will select some students in class who will watch and listen to a segment of a video and will dramatize its content to their partners who are not watching the scene and who should ask questions in order to guess what is happening in the scene.

Objectives: The idea of this activity is to develop in the students the speaking skills and to improve some grammatical structures like asking and answers questions.

7-Organize and recreate all the scenes from the video based on the dialogue lines and students’ memory. Pair work activity.

Description: In this activity the teacher should write on separate strips of paper some dialogue lines regarding a video watched and let students to organize and recreate all the scenes based on the dialogue lines and what they remember having seen. It is a pair work activity. After finishing organizing the information, they should report to class.

Objectives: The idea of this activity is to develop the process of memorization in the students, although they have a guide (which is the dialogue lines) but they only work as a basic support, they should be able to report almost in details the content of the video, contributing to enrich the speaking skill in the students.

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8-Create a different title of the video, taking into account its content. Provide reasons.

Description: In this activity the students should create a different title of the video, taking into account its content. Students will work individually and after 5 minutes, they will read the new title aloud and provide reasons about their creativity.

Objectives: The idea of this activity is to realize how much students have understood the content of the video and to develop their creativity and some skills like the writing and the speaking ones.