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: Eulogy at the Funeral of Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, June 2015
- Ken Robinson: TED, 2006
- iPad Introduction, 2010 (8 mins)
- Martin Luther King: “I have a dream” 1963
- iPad Advertisement, 2011: “Love”
- Princess Diana: Headway Lunch, 1993
- Robert G. Menzies, Declaration of War, 1939
- Bono: Commencement Address, Penn State
- Winston Churchill: We will fight on the beaches
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Davos (January 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?