These award-winning videos follow the same syllabus and formula as Grapevine videos 1 & 2. Each consists of eight comedy vignettes, and some characters (Dennis Cook, Inspector Grant) re-appear from the Grapevine videos.
English Channel can be used as a supplement to any beginner / elementary course. If it is done quickly, and extra discussion generated from the Teacher's notes it can be used at higher levels also.
The Student's Book contains tasks for each of the eight videos.
The episode is then divided into sections (usually four) for detailed exploitation. Each section consists of:
• Pre-tasks (Before you watch)
• Watch the section
• While you watch activity (optional)
• Post-tasks (After you watch)
Which is more difficult in a foreign language? Understanding a person speaking (with gesture, body language, facial expression, background pictures) or understanding a telephone conversation? Listening is a vital skill, but students are doing it blindfolded without the visual information we get in real life. Students can follow a video story via the pictures, and are motivated to watch again to try to get more meaning from the material.
They understand because so much of communication is non-verbal. Above all, classroom video gets students talking. It inspires more conversation than any other method. Surveys of students consistently reveal that it is the most popular stimulus. That is, as long as it is designed for a purpose, short, and interesting. Seven or eight minutes of video is enough for a 90 minute lesson
4-English Channel 3 DVD Video
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