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.
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- Barack Obama: Dublin 2011
- Conan O’Brien: Commencement Address, Dartmouth College, 2011
- Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: 1994 Democratic Party Convention
- Barack Obama: The Economy. Osawatomie, Kansas: December 2011
- David Cameron: Tribute to Queen Elizabeth, March 2012
- Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Speech, Westminster, March 2012
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008
- Jill Bolte Taylor: A stroke of insight
- Robin Cook: Resignation Speech as UK Foreign Secretary, 2003
- John F. Kennedy: We Choose to go to the Moon
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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?