William Shakespeare biography in Edpuzzle.

Watch the next video about the life of William Shakespeare and answer the questions. 

William Shakespeare biograpy.

  • Give a reason for your choice of video.
I selected this video because is related with the topic we have been working on the timeline. Thanks to it, students will recognize the vocabulary activating their background knowledge and improving their comprehension. With this activity we are going to work Top-down and Bottom-up exercises.

  • Explain briefly the learning objectives for the session(s) and sequence of activities.
Objectives

- Activate vocabulary.
- Make a prediction about the listening they are going to hear.
-  Watch and understand and english video.
- Use strategies for activate listening.
- Improve top-down and bootom-up listening skills.
- Answer a questionnaire.

Activities

1. Prediction. We ask the students to make a prediction about the video they are going to watch. They talk in small groups about this and then we share our prediction.

2. Previous knowledge. We tell the topic that we are going to work on the video and they have to remember the vocabulary, subtopic, and other relevant information. They can review the timeline and the biography.

3. Read the questionnaire before to watch the video.

4. Watch and and answer the questions.

5. Revise responses before submitting it.

  • Explain if you flipped your class (or any part of it) and how, if so, this has helped you achieve the learning objectives.
I have not flipped my class.

  • Highlight the high points of the experience: what went well and what did you and the students particularly enjoy about the task.
This activity has been attractive to the students because it was connected with the last one about the timeline so they felt motivated to speak about it when we were predicting what we will watch on the video. They had a wider vocabulary about the topic to built a variety of sentences to describe their ideas.

We are used to watch videos in the classroom but now with Edpuzzle  they feel more confident because the video is prepared with questions in different sections and they can understand it better.

They have enjoyed a lot to do the questionnaire in Moodle Centros.

  • Suggest ways of improving next time.
We can introduce activities during the video instead of multiple choice questions. 

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