Listening: Edpuzzle

 

This is the video that students will have to work on:

As the lesson we are doing next is about cities and urbanization, I think this video provides information about the origin and future of cities. It offers vocabulary about urbanization that the students will need to recognize and use.

The learning objectives are the following:

Understanding the main points of the text about the origin and future of cities

Being able to understand more complex vocabulary about urbanization

Understanding specific information about the video about the cities

The way we are going to work the video will be the following:

1.       The teacher presents the activity in class and pre-teaches some complex vocabulary that will help students to understand the video. The video will be the unedited version without the questions added on Edpuzzle: https://edpuzzle.com/media/67cd7fa3e70ee4e857ffe7ff

2.       At home the students will watch the video (flipped classroom) and will write down the vocabulary used on the video about cities

3.       In class the video will be watched and the students will work in pairs to extract the main ideas.

4.       The second time the teacher plays the video, the students will try to complete the sentences that have been inserted on the video.

5.       After the activity, the students will focus on the last part of the video about the future of cities and will take part in a debate about what the cities of the future will be like.

In general, I would like to highlight that when the students watch the video at home without having to focus on an activity, it helps them to relax and they even get a better understanding of the content. The main difficulty is the completion of the activity, which involves understanding more specific information which has been paraphrased from the video. As a way to improve if the students are unable to complete the activity, we could play the video one more time and even with subtitles.