[ti:How to Create Many Activities from One Video]
[al:Education Report]
[ar:VOA]
[dt:2023-02-26]
[by:www.voase.cn]
[00:00.00]Teachers often use videos to give students a break from the usual classroom activities. 
[00:08.52]Learners use videos, too, to improve their listening and speaking skills.
[00:14.16]In this week's Education Tips, we look at how one of our videos can be the start of a full English lesson.
[00:22.67]We will look at the video for The Big Snow, Lesson 11 of Let's Learn English Level 2.
[00:29.39]In this lesson, Anna and Pete are reporting on a snowstorm, or blizzard. Anna loves to talk about weather. 
[00:38.79]Pete is unhappy because he is working on a weekend.
[00:43.95]The video teaches the present perfect and past perfect verb tenses.
[00:49.86]In recent workshops with English teachers in Ukraine, VOA Learning English instructors asked the teachers to brainstorm ideas for activities they could create with this video.
[01:03.09]The teachers came up with about 40 ideas. 
[01:07.99]They range from activities centered on grammar to activities that cover the subject of weather.
[01:14.52]Here are some examples of classroom activities for before, during and after watching the video:
[01:23.63]Before watching
[01:25.88]Students list the words they know for kinds of weather and prepare to listen for weather words in the video
[01:33.24]The teacher describes the video’s plot, then students predict what will happen if Pete and Anna must stay at work all weekend
[01:43.33]Students talk about their personal experiences with major storms or describe storms they have read about in books or seen in movies.
[01:54.32]While watching
[01:56.59]Listen for weather words in the video and write them down or circle them on the printed text of the lesson
[02:04.93]The teacher stops the video and, with an image showing on the screen, asks students to do an activity:
[02:13.75]Guess what happens next
[02:16.16]Describe what the characters are wearing in the image
[02:19.93]Ask questions about what has happened so far
[02:23.90]Give an actor in the video advice
[02:27.12]Talk about which actor is their favorite
[02:30.41]Describe the setting
[02:33.28]Describe the feelings of the people in the video
[02:37.29]After watching
[02:39.86]Students summarize the story in writing or talk about it in small groups
[02:45.37]Students identify problems and solutions in the story
[02:49.96]Students act out their favorite scene from the video or act out the story with a different kind of weather event
[02:58.00]Teacher or students write true/false statements about the story to check understanding
[03:05.54]Students think of different ways the story could end. Then they write the different ending and act it out in small groups
[03:15.42]Students think of other names for a big storm that might happen where they live
[03:20.84]Student groups make lists of supplies they would need in case of a natural disaster: foods, equipment, clothing
[03:30.03]Students play a game with a paper “snowball" (information below)*
[03:33.40]As you can see from this list, there are plenty of ideas for giving students the chance to speak, write, read, and listen while enjoying a short, humorous video.
[03:47.22]If you want to see more ideas, each Let's Learn English video comes with a lesson plan that you can download.
[03:55.78]For the snowstorm video, one activity sheet asks students to use the present perfect and past perfect tense to think of questions and answers using "snow words."
[04:09.34]Another activity sheet gives students weather information from around the world and asks them to give a weather forecast like the ones you can see on television.
[04:20.45]We are sure you can think of other ways to use this video in learning or teaching English. 
[04:27.97]Write to us in the comments if you want to share your own ideas.
[04:33.42]I'm Jill Robbins.