Ideas for PDP
Ideas for Pre, During and Post viewing activities
Watching movies or video in general, should not be an end in itself but rather a means to an end ; a tool to make the teaching of English more effective.
The teacher wishing to implement the use of video in her class should have a repertoire of activities at hand so that the viewing is more meaningful.
Here’s a list of ideas for activities before, during and after watching a movie or video clip. I hope you can share your ideas with us!
Pre- viewing activites:
These are extremely important as they prepare students for the lesson.
Building schema: ask questions that would lead to the topic
Provide Vocabulary
Lead in Questions
Brainstorming
Prediction: what the video is going to be about from its title, or have them talk about or write about their knowledge of the topic.
During
Graded tasks
Filling in blanks
Discussing
Script with mistakes for sts to notice what’s different
Bingo for word recognition (1st watching, concentrating mainly on audio input)
Dictation ( students hear the dialogue and write down what they hear)
Post- viewing activities
These are also very important as they give teachers the chance to follow up on the students’ learning.
Use the video input for speaking, writing
Write reports, summaries, opinions, stories
Further reading
Roleplaying
Make a poster
Film
Oral presentations
Who said what, to whom, when, where and why?
20 questions about an object or a character. YES-NO questions
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