[Rebecca Svanström]

I can acctually say the same as Yolanda here, the first paragraph you have put it so well!

[Rebecca Svanström]

For my students I would use “sony bravia bouncy balls”

I would perhaps have an image of a bouncy ball and simply ask as a pre-question how many of these do you think is needed to be able to fill a whole street?

Then watch the ad

Then they would answer the questions to “video ads activity sheet” – and perhaps have something connected to how this ad was created, perhaps a behind the scene to this ad., also I would hand out vocabulary connected to ad/movie making and feelings.

Outcome would hopefully be an understanding of the effort it took doing this ad. also vocabulary connected to ad/movie making and feelings.

Post question could be – Can you describe the feeling you got from the ad and why, also do you think you would be able to create an ad like this, why or why not?

[Rebecca Svanström]

Hi,

I will try to answer the questions given.

Yes I think they were right to add a fifth skill. The four skills that I am teaching, I think might not be enough – since we have got viewing everywhere we go, and so much more that previous years.

The video resonates to everyone, all of us get bombarded with images and sounds and everything. The message, might be, that we need to understand and press “pause” sometimes in what we see and hear, I agree completely with the massage!

Rebecca

[Rebecca Svanström]

Hi,

I will try to answer which of these six activities would work the best with my students and why.

The first one I believe would work the best, is “tell me questions” – These questions could be used in all levels – basic questions (all students) – general (all students, though perhaps in some cases, not to the lower levels) – special questions (intermediate and advanced students). Usually, I have got 2h classes with my students, and after 1h we have a break – with students of all levels preferably then I need to have assinnments where I can have all levels in one, sort of. That is why I like this one, I suppose!

Also, I like the assgnment “language study” – there the students aren’t only working with information, they are working with the language, with the linguistic bits, in a way.

The last one, which I think would suit my students is the “trailer activity”. Here the students can be placecd with a partner and in being two, one can write – the other one doesn’t need to – which can be good if you like speaking and not writing or vice versa.

To answer the last question: why films should be used in language teaching – it is basically because I think it is a good appproach to learn a language, and the majority of students watch videos of all sorts, so then you meet them in theis everyday life.

Rebecca

[Rebecca Svanström]

Hi everyone,

Nice to meet you!

Here is an introduction based on the questions above.

My name is Rebecca and I work as a teacher in Civics and English in YR 10-12, so I have got teenagers.
I work in Sweden, close to Stockholm, but not in Stockholm. My hope from this couse is to get another approach in teaching – and it seems that from only one seminar, which we have had, that I will =)!

Have the greatest day,
Rebecca

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