Op 21 sep.

2015 om 19:36 heeft Kieran

Donaghy kieranthomasdonaghy@gmail.com [LMCS
Sig] <LMCSSig@yahoogroups.com> het volgende
geschreven:
Dear Christien,
I've just posted in the forum, but i'm not sure I've
done it correctly so I'll post my comment below as
well.
With so many videos and resources available online
nowadays it can be very daunting to find high quality
videos and short films, video-based resources for
teachers and students. iI'd like to recommend some
of the resources that I've found most useful in the
last few years.
Lesson plans
There are many websites and blogs which provide
detailed and well-structured lesson plans designed
around film and television clips, short films and viral
videos which save the busy teacher a lot of time.
Here are my personal favourites.
Allat C http://allatc.wordpress.com/

This is an excellent blog by Steve Muir and Tom

Ireland, which supplies lesson plans designed
around short videos , especially clips from television
series, for teachers of advanced students (C1 and
C2).
Lessonstream http://lessonstream.org/
Jamie Keddie is a pioneer in the use of video in
language teaching, and his website has a wealth of
creative and imaginative lesson plans designed
around short videos.
Viral ELT - http://viralelt.wordpress.com/
This excellent blog by Ian James is dedicated to
exploiting viral videos in language teaching.
Film English http://film-english.com/
My own resource site has over a hundred and
twenty detailed lesson plans designed around short
films.

Film guides

If you want to show whole films either in one sitting

(something which I would recommend doing only
very occasionally) or over a number of sessions, its
necessary to do quite a lot of work on linguistic,
cultural and cinematographic features of the film
prior to actually watching the film. Not so long ago
teachers had to spend many hours creating their
own film guides, but nowadays there are several
sites where teachers can find free, high quality film
guides to use in the language classroom.
ESL
Notes http://www.eslnotes.com/synopses.h
tml
An outstanding resource site, created by Raymond
Weschler, which provides over 200 detailed film
guides. Each individual guide is a detailed synopsis
of a popular classic or contemporary film with an
extensive glossary of vocabulary and expressions
students come across in the film. Although the site
looks very basic the content is very good.
Film in Language Teaching
Association http://www.filta.org.uk/

FILTA is an association of language teachers, film

educators and researchers which provides film
guides to use in language teaching.
Film Club http://www.filmclub.org/
A UK charity which gives children and young people
the opportunity to watch, discuss and review films
supplies hundreds of pedagogically-sound free film
guides.
Film
Education http://www.filmeducation.org/
A website that produces well-structured and
engaging film guides for a wide range of films.

Short films
Creating moving images has never been easier due
to the digital revolution, the proliferation of mobile
devices, the increased ease of capturing and editing
video, and the emergence of video distribution sites
such as You Tube and Vimeo. This has led to an
explosion in the production of short films and their
availability. However, due to the sheer quantity of

short films its often very difficult for teachers to find

high quality short films they can use with their
students. Here are my three favourite places for
finding creative and innovative short films.
Vimeo Staff
Picks https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpick
s
This channel has a great selection of high quality
short films handed selected by the staff at Vimeo.
Future
Shorts www.youtube.com/futureshorts
A YouTube channel with hundreds of short films with
innovative narrative structures.
Short of the Week www.shortoftheweek.com
A website dedicated to finding the best short films
available online.

Film sites for students

The Internet now offers students the opportunity to

improve their lexical, listening and speaking skills
through watching short film clips and short films.
English
Central http://www.englishcentral.com
Possibly the best website for students to improve
their speaking and pronunciation. This innovative
site provides students with videos with subtitles. The
students watch the videos, practise vocabulary used
in the video, record themselves repeating what they
hear, and then get feedback on their pronunciation.
English Attack www.english-attack.com/
Young students can improve their English on this
community website, which uses clips from film and
TV series.
Learn English Teens Film
UK http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.or
g/uk-now/film-uk/
A British Council website which gives students the
opportunity to watch innovative short films made by

young people, and do a variety of activities designed

around the films.

Animated movie makers

There are a number of websites where students can
create their own animated short films and practise
and improve their writing, vocabulary and speaking.
Here are the two sites Ive found students like most.
Go Animate http://goanimate.com/
A site where learners can create their own animated
short films, write the subtitles and create a voiceover.
Zimmer
Twins http://www.zimmertwins.com/
Younger learners love this site where they create
short cartoon animations, add subtitles and voiceovers.

Subtitling and revoicing

Students can improve their vocabulary, writing and
speaking in a fun and engaging way by subtitling
and dubbing television and film clips.

Bombay
TV http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/
A fun site where learners can add subtitles and
voice-overs to Indian television and film clips.
Clip Flair http://clipflair.net/
A site where learners can revoice (dub) and
caption (subtitle) video clips.
Well, these are my favourite video and film sites.
Have you used any of them? What was your
experience? Do you have any other video sites and
resources you use with your students?
I look forward to reading about your favourites.
Kieran

Kieran
Kieran Donaghy
ELT Writer and Teacher Trainer
Film English
The Image Conference

On 21 September 2015 at 15:47, 'Christien van

Gool' cmmhvangool@planet.nl [LMCSSig] <LMCSSi
g@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Thank you for your answers Kieran very helpful!!
Christien

Van: LMCSSig@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LMCSSig@yahoogroups.com]

Verzonden: zondag 20 september 2015 22:24
Aan: LMCSSig@yahoogroups.com
Onderwerp: Re: [LMCSSig] Video in Action 1

Dear Christien,
Thank you vey much for your interesting comments.
I'll just like to reply to a couple of points:
As for letting students create their own videos: this is a very good idea instead of taping
conversations it is very motivating to have students interview each other and tape it so that
they can watch their performances in the language: always a good way to correct yourself and
hear what mistakes you make. A simple telephone nowadays is enough to do this.

Yes, videoing a conversation is a good example of

students creating their own videos, the ability of
video and film to inspire increases even more when
learners are actively involved in making their own

moving image texts. Learners are usually highly

enthusiastic, and prepared to put in a huge amount
of time and effort when working on a movie image
project because it is their own and it has a tangible
result. Even learners who are normally disaffected
and disengaged are happy to work on moving image
projects in their own time, and often achieve
excellent results. Expensive equipment is no longer
need to make a video learners can create very good
short videos and films with a mobile phone or tablet.
They can also edit them, using a mobile device or
computer. Video creation can be done in class as
the main activity or at home as a follow-up
activity.
However, I think there are a lot of activities which
can be used in the language classroom which go
beyond simply videoing conversations. There
currently a glut of book on the role of video and film
in language learning such as:
Language Learning with Digital Video by Ben
Goldstein and Paul Driver, Cambridge University
Press 2014
Bringing Online Video Into the Classroom by
Jamie Keddie, Oxford Univeristy Press 2014
My own book Film in Action, DELTA Publishing
2015
All these books have a lot of activities in which
students create their own videos or short films.

Heres a link to one such activity in which students

have to create their own how to videos:
http://filminaction.net/2015/03/30/film-inaction-competition/
You can see some of videos students created by
clicking on the links below:
How to make miso soup:
http://filminaction.net/2015/06/04/winnerof-film-in-action-competition/
How to draw a rose:
http://filminaction.net/2015/07/04/how-todraw-a-rose/
How to make a bracelet:
http://filminaction.net/2015/07/14/how-tomake-a-bracelet/