There are a lot of ways you can use the videos to learn English. You can…
- listen (…duh!)
- take notes
- summarize
- pause, repeat
- copy the accent
- act it out
- discuss the topic with friends or classmates
- look up words in a dictionary
- translate passages the old way
- translate words and passages using Google Translate
- print out some paragraphs or the whole video transcript and then use the website at http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html to make gap-fill exercises (cut and paste, click on Interactive and fill them in as you listen
- make beautiful word clouds with Wordle
- find other speeches or clips by the same speakers or actors and make a gorgeous fan page at www.scoop.it
- The site YouSpeakIt has an interesting tool for learners: you can repeat and loop while listening to selected videos on their site. It’s a paid service.
- more…
Suggest some of your own uses on our comment page.
Let’s start!
- Nelson Mandela: Supreme Court, Pretoria, 1964
- Hilary Clinton: CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2008
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Barack Obama: Eulogy at the Funeral of Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, June 2015
- Groucho Marx: “Duck Soup” (1933)
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, June 2012
- Winston Churchill: We will fight on the beaches
- Jack Nicholson: Why can’t we all just get along? 1996: ‘Mars Attacks’
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
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Using this site in combination with http://wordsift.com/ is another way to learn English in an interesting / fun way.
Thanks very much for the suggestion? Any speeches you would like to see added?