Teaching English with Youtube

YouTube could be very useful in our school, where all students want to learn English:

‘Sites such as YouTube provide English learners and classes with a new tool to improve listening skills. The real advantage to these sites - at least from a language learning point of view - is that they offer authentic examples of everyday English used by everyday people.’

http://esl.about.com/b/2008/01/26/youtube-in-the-classroom.htm

 Match the phrases from video.

•                        Listening gap fill

• ·        Multiple choice

• ·        Spelling

• ·        The reading / typescript

Homework tasks could include:

1. Vocabulary extension: choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. YouTube: search the internet and find more information about YouTube. Talk about what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. Magazine article: write a magazine article about YouTube. Include imaginary an interview with YouTube’s CEO and a YouTube fan. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.

4. What happened next? Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.

5. Letter: write a letter to YouTube’s CEO. Ask him/her three questions about YouTube. Give him/her three of your opinions on YouTube. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Your partner will answer the questions you asked.