Videos of countries

Dear Colleagues, we know contextualization is extremely important when teaching. This week I was looking for an online free video about Thailand to show my students and I found great videos that can be used in EFL and ESL classes. You can find them in YOUTUBE by typing "Discover countries GOOCLIP". The videos show different countries + narration, so you can both exploit the images and the audio. This is the one I chose for my class, it´s about Bangkok.

English Media Lab

I had already visited this site which offers lots of exercises and videos but a drawback I found was that I wasn´t able to enlarge the screen in order to use the videos in the classroom with my groups. Now, with the window media player format we CAN do that. Click on the video title you want, when the page has uploaded right-click with your mouse on the screen, choose ZOOM, whole screen and voilá you have the video to use in class. I believe you can´t download it though.

Why don´t you have a look? It´s really worth a visit.

http://www.englishmedialab.com/index.html

Remember the videos can be found on the left sidebar.

GAMES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

http://eflclassroom.ning.com/page/page/show?id=826870%3APage%3A14690

This is a wonderful site with links to various games:
HAVE YOU GOT THE TIME?

PREPOSITION PRACTICE

MEMORY GAME: body

MAGIC LANTERN: changing words

CLOUDS GAME

Papiroflexia

Watch a wonderful video I´ve found:

Any idea on how to use this video? I thought of asking students to describe the scene to each other. Don´t you find it poetic?

Creating online material with Windows MOVIE MAKER

This is a quiz I created for my basic students. Do you like music? Can you say the names of these singers or bands? Hope you like it.

LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdUgTvkz0Wg

EveryScape

This site had me baffled. It´s like virtually visiting a city and being able to choose where to go, go into certain shops, see what people were doing. It´s amazing. I never thought that would be possible. So far, there´s only one city , San Francisco, but there will be other american cities soon. Can you imagine once they start doing that with famous capitals in the world, and make it possible to visit famous landmarks without leaving your home? It´s really worth a visit.

http://www.everyscape.com/