Teaching about mass media during language, culture and IT

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Transcript Teaching about mass media during language, culture and IT

XVII NATE – Russia International Annual Conference NEW TIMES – NEW SONGS: ELT AFTER 2010

Yevgenia Kudryavtseva Samara Access

Kaliningrad 2011

Types of planning

1.

   

What to teach?

English Culture IT Leadership skills 2. How to plan teaching?  Teach each component at its lesson  Teach the same theme at the subjects connected with each component

Samara ACCESS

Subjects

I.  English through language games  English through songs  English through video  English through computer and the Internet II  English through language games  English through culture studies  English through computer and the Internet

Course Books and Resources

 Cambridge course book

Interchange 3

TB) (SB, WB, 

Books and Timesavers

on American culture 

VOA CD

Internet resources

on American and Russian culture 

American and Russian Songs -

books and Internet resourses 

Video

“Mass Media” at the English class

Course book: Interchange 3 SB, WB, TB Unit 4: What a story! Number of lessons: 2-4 (depending on the group) Components:  Warm-up (discussing top newspaper sections) >>>  Grammar (Past Cont. vs Past simple) >>>  Listening (understanding the news broadcasts) >>>  Speaking (telling group stories) >>>  Reading and Writing (a newspaper article) >>> 

Progress Check >>>

“Mass Media” at Culture Studies

1.

2.

Informative texts about mass media in the USA (for reading/ listening) – a) Audio/ Video authentic material – b) : radio and TV

online

3.

Discussions – c):

- Is too much TV bad for your brain?

- Is blogging a dangerous thing?

4. Final theme project

“New TV Channel”

>>> , >>> _____________________ a) Interchange 3, Listen, read, learn CD b) Internet resources c) VOA CD

“Mass Media” at IT Lessons

1.

2.

Search for information on the Internet –

Russian TV Channels: CNN and Channel 1 American

Presenting a channel/ a TV show:

Group C (lowest level of English; work according to a given plan with key questions) –

“This is CNN” >>>

Group B (are given an example and a plan)

TV” >>>

“Russia

Group A (group work; brainstorm the plan together, choose the questions, make video) – interview

“Samara Access TV: What is your favourite TV channel?” >>>

Final ACCESS Parties.

Pecha-Kucha

Pecha Kucha:

Japanese: ペチャクチャ chit-chat 

February 2003

, by

Astrid Klein

and

Mark Dytham

of Tokyo's Klein-Dytham Architecture 

20x20:

20 slides - for 20 seconds each, usually seen in a multiple-speaker event called a Pecha Kucha Night,the images forward automatically and you talk along to the images 

Pecha Kucha Night events :

around a dozen presentations, any theme you like  http://www.pecha-kucha.org/