2. Why should we include
Audio-Visual Resources in our classes?
1. Audio-visual resources can greatly enrich the everyday classroom.
Real English situation.
Real songs, documentaries, films, etc.
Real examples.
2. Audio-visual resources can enhance teaching methods and improve
student comprehension.
3. Audio-visual resources should be tailored for a particular audience
depending on the level (of the students).
4. Audio-visual resources can be an important tool focussing on the
students’ interests.
3. Why should not we include
Audio-Visual Resources in our classes?
Non motivating contents.
Abuse of these resources.
Not focus on the aim.
Non adapted resources.
4. What to consider …
VISUAL AND AUDIO RESOURCES (FILMS, VIDEOS …)
• Quality:
It should sounds properly
It should have good image definition
It should be easy to access
• Content:
Accurate to the students’ age
Connected with the content or topic of the lesson (purpose)
Supported with other activities (filling gaps, answering questions …)
Links for teachers’
http://www.slideshare.net/synergybroadcast/using-video-in-the-
classroom-1075794
5. Ideas for activities
We can use the interactive whiteboard:
- As a tool for the whole session
- For a specific video activity
In this case it has been particularly difficult to find videos on the internet because i´ts difficult
to find videos for 11-12 year old L2 learners.
• Idea ONE is to watch a video from the internet:
• 1st I´m going to use the IWB to give them instructions of the activity as a
traditional blackboard
• 2nd I´m going to use the IWB to watch a video from the internet
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/kids-talk/do-you-cooking
• 3rd With this video you can download the transcription and a word search.
• 4th And after the word search and after watching the video again,
they have a list of food words which ss can group in the food pyramid.
6. Idea TWO
1st After working on food or as an introduction. Watch
a recipe from youtube “recipes for children”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo1VyPEKw0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hEgufgam4A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx0jaTiFVbc&feature=endscreen&NR=1
2nd This is a real recipe so students can make the list of
ingredients.
3rd After this, they can make their own recipe and
filmed if possible to watch it in class.
7. How to find/make resources
Web pages where we can find English language educational
videos for primaries
• 1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac
• 2) http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
• 3) www.youtube.com
• 4) http://www.english-4kids.com/lessons.htm
• 5) http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/
8. Examples of classroom use
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ME68XI-No
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVJjyGZkzqU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFsUoGvJbDE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS7IqSg9YEE
How can we use videos in class.
• Use a picture camera. Record short videos. For example : English songs
with children’s in the class.
• Download it to the laptop.
• Use the White interactive Board, the laptop and proyect it.
• We can download videos educational English videos in youtube using Free
YouTube Download software program 3.1.29.608 file size: 24.28 MB
9. There are software programs to edit video
1. AVS Video Editor supports all key video formats. Edit & save video files in
AVI, VOB, MP4, DVD, WMV, 3GP, MOV, MKV, H.263/H.264 codecs, etc. See a full list of
supported video formats
Edit Your Video with Fantasy
Trim, cut, split, merge, rotate and mix videos with AVS Video Editor . Select between
300 innovative video effects and transitions. Insert menus, audio, text comments and
subtitles. Stabilize video camera shaky recordings.
Speed Up HD-Videos Editing
Manage AVI HD, WMV HD, TOD, AVCHD, MOD, MTS/M2TS, etc. with AVS Video Editor
Due to the integrated video cache technology, HD-video editing becomes faster.
Process Blu-Ray Videos
Open and edit your Blu-ray videos with AVS Video Editor . Apply effects and add
specially designed menus. Add audio, video and images to your videos. Save files in
any key video format. Or burn videos on to Blu-ray discs.
2.Windows movie maker.
Use window movie player program.
10. How can we make audio files in class.
1)Use a microphone connected with a laptop.
2)Record audio English activities with windows mediaplayer.
3)Play them in the class so children could listen what they have recorded, songs,rhymes,chants.
We can use audio edition software programs:
1. Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It allows you to record live audio,
converts tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. You
also can cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together with Audacity. Built-in effects are given to remove static, hiss,
hum or other constant background noises.
2. Power Sound Editor
Power Sound Editor
Power Sound Editor Free is a visual audio editing and recording software solution, which supports many
advanced and powerful operations with audio data.
You can use Power Sound Editor Free to record your own music, voice, or other audio files, edit it, mix it with
other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo, and burn it on a CD, post it on the
World Wide Web or e-mail it.
11. BIBLIOGRAPHY (Portia)
• Learning and teaching withIWB: Primary and
early years. (Barber, David. 2007)
• How to use an IWB really effectively in your
primary classroom. (Gage, Jenny)
• How to teach English with Technology (with
CD-Rom) (Gavin Dudeney & Nicky Hockly )
Pearson - Longman
• Teaching English with video (Allan, Margaret)
Harlow: Longman 1985
12. On the web
• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/tips/powerpoint-
teachers
• http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/film.htm
• http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/internet.h
tm
• http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/knowledge-
database/interactive-white-blackboard-iwb
• http://www.wmich.edu/teachenglish/subpages/techno
logy/tech.htm
• http://www.youtube.com/user/Linguaspectrum
