Week 3. Learning a
Language through Video
Hopefully,
Marianna
Pascal’s video gave you some insight into how attitude affects learning and how
having the proper attitude can facilitate your communication skills. As she
says, students sometimes try to make things too complicated, get stuck
searching for the perfect word, or lack confidence and are afraid to try to
communicate.
If you are motivated, there
are lots of great free resources for you to try to help you improve your
English ability. This lesson will introduce four sites that can give you hours
of practice on improving your listening and vocabulary skills. In addition, you
may learn something about science, history, education, and different cultures.
The Voice of America
website has videos with tapescripts, vocabulary lists, learning strategies, and
quizzes. You can click at the top of the page to try Beginning Level,
Intermediate Level, or Advanced Level.
In addition, at the far right, there is a Video button you can click to
get to 1-minute Video lessons that introduce vocabulary, phrases, and idioms.
TED has numerous videos
that are generally at an intermediate or advanced level. When you go to the website, you can click on
Watch at the top and you will see a drop-down menu. You can choose TED Talks or
TED-Ed Videos. If you click on TED
Talks, you can then search by topic or language. If you choose Chinese, it will
show you a list of talks that have Chinese subtitles and tapescripts. If you click on TED-ED Videos, you will find
shorter videos developed by educators, many with Chinese subtitles.
The British Council Learn
English website has a section called Skills, where you can click on Listening,
Reading, Writing, and Speaking. It also
has a menu for Grammar, Vocabulary, and Business English practice. At the top of the page there are links
especially for kids and teenagers. There
is a way to set the interface to Chinese, but most of the time that just translates
the basic intro to the activities. The English videos and exercises are
all-English.
Finally, you can try
ESLVideo, which has a menu with choices of Level, Songs, Pronunciation, and
Grammar. Most of the videos will have transcripts and quizzes.
While it may be
intimidating and challenging at first, you will soon get used to using these
all-English websites.
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