PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES

Description: A brief commentary about what students should do in each activity and if they have to work in pairs, individually or in groups.

Objectives: The purpose of doing each activity in class.
Examples: Some examples of the video lessons taking place in class.

Title of the video: (Most beautiful places in the world)
1-Before watching the video the teacher asks a general question like:
Have you ever been somewhere so beautiful that made you want to live for ever? Students will discuss in pairs.

Description:
In this activity students should discuss with the partner the question presented by the teacher with out watching to the video. It is a warm up activity, which will contextualize students concerning the content they will acquire and will develop their creativity.

Objectives: The idea of the exercise is to prepare students towards an active and reflective observation of the video and to motivate them towards the topic they will deal with.

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Title of the video: (Most beautiful places in the world)
2- Students will watch and listen to the video and debate after that, if their opinions coincide with the content of the video. Students can add another place that does not appear in the video and give reasons.

Description: Trough this activity the students should watch and listen to the video trying to find out what are the most beautiful places around the world according to the author. So, after listening they will discuss with the partner about the places mentioned. They could agree or disagree with the author and could add some new places they consider beautiful and have not been mentioned in the video. Students should provide reasons that justify their criteria.

Objectives: The idea of this activity is to keep students motivated towards what they are going to hear so they focus all their attention on the listening activity rather than listening without a specific purpose. To prepare students with respect to the information presented through the video. It is important that the information tribute to their interests and curiosity. This activity also highly contributes to the students’ culture’s acquisition due to the video deals with different places around the world.

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3- Teacher should create a brainstorming before students watch the video. So, he/she will present the general topic of the video and ask students to discuss about it. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=55TdqC9Luck (Climate change) The global warming and its effect on the weather.

Description: The teacher will introduce the general topic of the video and let students generate all the vocabulary and other information they know about the topic. Writing the information on the board helps students to share the information they have created and offers them at the same time a great support before watching the video. It is a pair work activity.

Objectives: The idea of this activity is to prepare students towards an active and reflective observation of the video. It allows students to feel motivated and interested towards the knowledge they will acquire.

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4- The teacher will present the following list of words (layer, warmth, ozone, trapped, tackles) and students should link these words with the content of the video with out watching it. Then they should discuss with their partner their ideas.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=55TdqC9Luck (Climate change)

Description: Before watching the video the teacher will write on the board the key words related to the video and the students should work with the partner predicting the content of the video based on the words presented. The teacher should provide the meaning of the words in case they are unknown for the students.

Objectives: This activity enriches the creativity of the students establishing a link between the words presented and the content of the video. It also stimulates students towards the video they will watch.

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5-The students should look at some pictures carefully and discuss in pairs their ideas concerning them. They should be able to relate the pictures with the video they are going to watch.

Description: The teacher will show students some pictures from the video they will watch and ask them to talk with their partner predicting the content of the video taking into account the pictures.

Objectives: The idea of this activity is to demonstrate that the use of videos stimulates not only the skill of listening through the ears, but also the skill of acquiring the information by means of the eyes. The activity will allow students the possibility to decode the information presented through the images and will motivate students towards the topic.

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6- Predict the content of the video. (Climate change) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=55TdqC9Luck

Description: Teachers will let students to watch and listen to a fragment of the video and will stop it asking them to predict what’s going to happen next.

Objectives: This activity allows students to get involved in the video and so, they can anticipate the content before they watch it. Besides, this activity develops the creativity, coherence and logic in the students due to they should take into account the previous content and link it with the unknown context. It helps to keep students interested with respect to the video until the end.

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7- To watch without any sound the first 45 seconds from the video and ask them to write a commentary afterwards.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=55TdqC9Luck (Climate change)

Description: The teacher will let students to watch without any sound the first 45 seconds from the video and ask them to take some notes while watching it. After that, they should work with the partner writing a commentary about what they have seen and report it in class.

Objectives: This type of activity stimulates students towards the video and engages them with respect to the topic they will deal with, but also the activity generates and improves the vocabulary in the students.

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8- To present the title of the video and ask students to discuss about the content of it without watching it, just taking into account the title. Pair work activity.
Description: The teacher will write the title of the video on the board and ask students to predict the content of the video based on the title. Students will debate with the partner their ideas and criteria about the relation between the title and the content.

Objective: The main goal of this activity is to develop the skill of prediction on the students.

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