Three model lessons of English language are presented on TVB education channel this morning, which are quite inspirational for teachers of English to consider integrating images, video clips, Windows Movie Maker and films in their classroom.
Lesson one: teach English with films (S 3 students)
The teacher plays a film to the class and let the students work on the PLOT and CHARACTERS analyses. The plot of the film is described in separate sentences, and jumbled up. All the students have to do is to work within groups, sorting out the correct order of the sentences. For the character analysis, students are given a matching exercise (maybe, did not understand clearly) to match the description of characters with their names. Another exercise of this part is to describe the characters with three words. The teacher also gives explanation to the film and the characters in order to help the students understand better.
Lesson two: vocabulary building with light and color (S 6 students)
The first section of the class is devoted to the description of facial expressions. The teacher shows a few photos of real people with various facial expressions, and asks the students to work out the emotions of these people. For example, the turned-down mouth corners suggest the person’s unhappiness. After the short discussion, the teacher moves on to putting a single light source on different positions around a volunteer’s face, so as to generate various effects of the person’s emotions.
This lesson teaches vocabulary of facial expressions and emotions in a straightforward way. By seeing the photos and the model student, the class has a better understanding of the meanings of the words. The teacher writes down the new vocabulary on the white board after the students learned them.
Lesson three: a project-based English language lesson (S 6 students)
The students do a project on one of a list of topics that include environmental pollution, work pressure, people’s health, and so on. The project requires the learners to collect a wide variety of resources such as photos, video clips, research reports, and statistics. After all information is collected, the students trim and edit the resources with Windows Movie Maker, integrating the materials into a project digital presentation. In the creation of the digital presentation, the learners are encouraged to use resources such as music, pictures, to make the presentation attractive to the audience.
The strength of this project is that it consolidates the learner’s English language in a practical way. The learners acquire English naturally in the process of doing their group work.
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All the lessons here are student-centered definitely with interesting activities. One thing I am concerned is that where and when is supposed to conduct these lessons, in class or after class? esp. for lesson 3 which is a little bit challenging to S6 students.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the model lessons. I was wondering that whether these models can be used into our mainland china students. As we know, most of China English teaching are exam-oriented. In order to improve language teaching, teachers should adopt new techonolgy and teaching method to achieve better outcome.
ReplyDeletehk students and teachers are exam oriented, too. so i think that lessons in junior forms can be more diversified and not so exam oriented. IT tools can add sparks of excitment to the lessons and the classroom becomes a more pleasurable place to teach and learn
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