1. VIDEO ASSIGNMENTS TO
IMPROVE ACQUISITION
IES Leonardo de Chabacier, Calatayud

2. In this day and age...
• English, still alien to students

3. Aim
• take English out of the classroom
• bring it closer to our students’
everyday lives

4. Listening task
• On a weekly basis
• At home: autonomously
• Easy to check / grade

5. Use of realia
• help to make the tasks more attractive
• real life-input vs. ready-made materials
• give greater information about the cultural
context of the English-speaking countries

6. Type of materials
• A. British sketch comedy
• Monty Python’s Flying Circus
• A Bit of Fry and Laurie
• Little Britain

10. • Film trailers
• e.g. Cars 2, Gnomeo and Juliet, Tangled, The King's Speech,
Toy Story 3
• Film clips
(Harry Potter, Dead Poets Society)
• Ads (Mastercard, Nespresso, ...)

13. Software
• Open-source (free)
• Easy to use

14. process
• Play the video:
VLC media player

17. 1. Select and get the video
• A. from the internet
www.saveyoutube.com (online)
www.keepvid.com
Stream Transport (embedded FLV videos)

21. • B. from DVD / video file (.avi, etc)
• Format factory (freeware)

23. 2. Subtitling: dotsub.com

25. Get subtitles
• Opensubtitles.org (for films, TV
series...)
• Subtitled trailers:
youlocalcinema.com

26. 3. Uploading the video:
• youtube.com
• vimeo.com
• dailymotion.com

27. 4. Creating quizzes and tasks
• eslvideo.com (multiple choice)

31. webquestions 2.0
• Multiple choice
• True / false
• Single word
• Missing word

33. Google docs- forms
• Text
• Paragraph text
• Multiple choice
• Checkboxes
• Choose from a list
• Grid
• Scale

35. Sources to get videos:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
http://abcnews.go.com/
http://tellyads.com/
http://yourlocalcinema.com/

36. How to contact us:
• IES Leonardo de Chabacier (Calatayud)- State secondary
school
• https://sites.google.com/site/englishatchabacier/ (within
the school’s site)
• http://englishatchabacier.wordpress.com (learning blog)
• http://www.delicious.com/englishatchabacier
(bookmarks)
• facebook: “englishatchabacier”