What can we do in our classrooms to foster this awareness among our students?
I would suggest spending at least a session to watch the following video and reflect on this serious issue:
While students are watching the video, you can ask them to take notes using this Cornell note-taking template.
If you wish to develop a gap-fill activity, click here.
You can access the complete video transcript from this link.
In any of the choices above, I would start by pre-teaching vocabulary. First, you can create a word cloud with the essential words and interact with students to see if they know the words. This is a word cloud I have created. If students need further help and you want to provide them with definitions of the words, you can use this worksheet I have prepared.
After working on the essential vocabulary as we described above, you can ask students to work in pairs and retell the content of the video using at least 5 key words from the list. Finally, some pairs would read their versions of the story aloud to their peers. By doing this final activity students will be developing their listening and speaking skills as they are used in real-life, that is, combining them as speakers of a language do.
After working on the essential vocabulary as we described above, you can ask students to work in pairs and retell the content of the video using at least 5 key words from the list. Finally, some pairs would read their versions of the story aloud to their peers. By doing this final activity students will be developing their listening and speaking skills as they are used in real-life, that is, combining them as speakers of a language do.
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