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Treetop rescue
Some bad language in this one. But you might like that! In the activity, students hear the story of the rescue from the point of view of the people on the ground – the ones flying the radio-controlled...
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I Am America
I recently read about a teacher from the Midwestern United States. It was a Friday afternoon and she was at work. Her students were excited about the news of the day – the inauguration of the 45th US...
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‘Thing do-ers’
Bottle openers, pizza cutters, guitar players, anteaters, grave robbers and troublemakers: the world is full of ‘thing do-ers’. In this activity, students are introduced to this type of English...
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Street questions
Last month (July 2016) I was in Manchester, training on my Video and Image in Language Teaching course (VILT) for NILE. One of the activities that I gave participants was to take photographs of...
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Doris and the raspberries
Here is a simple activity from my new book Videotelling (to be launched in June). Ask students to find a funny animal video on YouTube. They should then describe it without saying what the animal is....
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A few months ago, I collaborated with James and Luke Vyner from Creative Listening. We produced a short video in which I go into the streets of London to investigate an English word which may or may...
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Obama’s elf
This is my favourite Christmas video – an ingenious piece of work from animator Felix Sputnik. Please excuse the lack of PDF. At the time of upload, there are only three days of school left before the...
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The sweetest waitress
Sweeney and Todd is a well-known pie restaurant in Reading, UK. In 2015, I went there with my brother and we were served by the proprietor, June. As you can see, June is a bit of a star. And she...
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Would you rather?
‘Would you rather’ questions create a context for talking about hypothetical situations. In this video, James and Jess – two friends of mine – decide which would be better: to spend a month in prison...
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Brilliant toilet!
In this activity, students hear about a strange restaurant recommendation. They watch a video in which Paul talks about a friend’s suggestion to visit a new restaurant in town specifically because of...
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Gezi Park
The Woman in Red Dress photograph was taken on 28 May 2013, the very first day of the clashes between Turkish protesters and police. It has come to be a defining image of the events since that time....
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The sweetest waitress
Sweeney and Todd is a well-known pie restaurant in Reading, UK. In 2015, I went there with my brother and we were served by the proprietor, June. As you can see, June is a bit of a star. And she...
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Would you rather?
‘Would you rather’ questions create a context for talking about hypothetical situations. In this video, James and Jess – two friends of mine – decide which would be better: to spend a month in prison...
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Brilliant toilet!
In this activity, students hear about a strange restaurant recommendation. They watch a video in which Paul talks about a friend’s suggestion to visit a new restaurant in town specifically because of...
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Gezi Park
The Woman in Red Dress photograph was taken on 28 May 2013, the very first day of the clashes between Turkish protesters and police. It has come to be a defining image of the events since that time....
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Googly eyes
I originally saw this video on Reddit where it was posted with the description: “Scientists discover a googly-eyed cuttlefish on the sea floor and immediately begin roasting it.” [To roast (slang;...
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The eye of the bucket
This video was created by John Wells from the Southwest Texas Alternative Energy and Sustainable Living Field Laboratory (website here). John created the video by placing a GoPro camera at the bottom...
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An unusual lunch
A Charlie Chaplin lesson plan: This is one of the first Videotelling activities that I remember creating. I originally posted it on TEFLclips, the website that preceded this one. This was back in 2008...
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I Am America
I recently read about a teacher from the Midwestern United States. It was a Friday afternoon and she was at work. Her students were excited about the news of the day – the inauguration of the 45th US...
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Mis-images
I’ve always been fascinated by misunderstandings. Rather than being moments of communicative failure, they can draw our attention to details of language that we have never thought about before. In...
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