I have chosen this video due to the topic as it has to do with my students are currently working on “crime” vocabulary. It focuses on the issues which concern society deeply: bullying, and it is very “visual”. Unfortunately, there have been several cases in the school. Thus, I think it posed the ideal excuse for them to engage in current affairs.
As homework, I told my students to watch it (I gave
them the link and the code: https://edpuzzle.com/join/losolec
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The objectives intended to be achieved were:
To make students work autonomously at home.
To review vocabulary related to crimes.
To learn and use vocabulary related to bullying in
real communicative situations.
The task was clear: watch the video, identify the
topic, and write down the expressions which mostly caught their attention so as
to look them up in the dictionary.
I felt quite disappointed since just one girl did as I
had told them, so my first attempt of “flipped classroom” was a failure. Without my help, my student was not able to
give many right answers during the while-listening, even though she tried
several times. Honestly, I chose this clip because the end could be foreseeable
and it had subtitles. However, the version I gave my students with the questions
had no subtitles at all and I do not know why.
As a pre-listening activity they had to recognize
crimes that teens usually commit.
As I said
before, the quiz feature allowed me to embed
multiple-choice and open questions so that students could watch the video and
answer them at the same time. Likewise, progress and time could be checked.
In the computers lab, students worked
individually. I paused the viewing and gave them some tips and clues regarding
the understanding. It is true that I could have recorded my voice and give
specific instructions but I discarded the idea because I did not feel
comfortable.
The post listening task was devised
to start a discussion in class about the answers given: The follow- up question
was: “What would you do now?” Some
did not answer, others said things like: “cry
and talk with my mother”, “tell a
teacher and a friend”, or “I hit him”.
They cast a vote on the best one (the second option), and wrote the reason why they
would tell a teacher and a friend. Online dictionaries could be used.
On the whole, I am not quite happy
with the activity (my mistake), I could have done better (hard week and not
enough preparation), but right now I do not think Edpuzzle is a great thing,
maybe because due to the features of the students at IES Ciudad de Las Cabezas
(you have to make the most of your 60 minutes since just a few work at home
regularly). Some colleagues have already tried flipped lessons and they have
not succeeded either.
When asked about the topic “bullying”
they said it was ok because it is familiar, but listening activities are hard
without subtitles or tape scripts.
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