Using Youtube Videos as Model Texts for Grammar Lesson

(TESOL Materials--Sources for Model Texts)

Pedagogical Materials

All Ears English:

--Model Text for Present Perfect in the Context of Job Interviews

Easy English:

--2nd Conditional and 3rd Conditional

--Future Continuous

--Future Perfect

--Gerunds and Infinitives with Verbs

--Passive Voice: Video and Model Text and Freer Practice

editad1:

--Noun Clause Short Story

English Panda:

--Model Text for "wish" 

--Model Text for future forms

HamiltonHouseELT:

--Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous

LANGUAGE PLANET TOLUCA:

--Past Continuous Story

Learn English:

--Adding Emphasis and Fronting

Listen in English - Easy (Embedded):

--Indirect Questions

Marian Tejuelo:

--Future Perfect and Future Continuous: Video and Gapfill Worksheet

oomongzu oomongzu:

--Model Text for Relative Clauses: Mike, the luckiest guy I know.

sunenglishchannel:

Tran Nguyen:

--Adverbs of Intensity: Video and Transcript

Authentic Materials

Movie Clips

Giving Advice in the Present and Past

* Using Beauty and the Beast to Teach Giving Advice in the Present and Past

Present Perfect 
* Using "High Fidelity" Movie Clip to Explain the Difference Between "Yet" and "Already" with the Present Perfect

Will For Future Prediction

* The Great Dictator Speech by Charlie Chaplin--Will for Future Prediction

What Happens To Your Brain When You Mindlessly Scroll?: Listening Worksheet for Youtube Video

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What Happens To Your Brain When You Mindlessly Scroll?

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What Happens To Your Brain When You Mindlessly Scroll? https://youtube.com/watch?v=aNvvOQMx0jY&feature=shares

1. What chemical gets released in your brain when you use your cell phone?  How does this chemical make you feel?

2. If you’re addicted to your phone, what chemical gets released when you don’t check your phone for a while?

3. What does “FOMO” stand for?  How is this connected to cell-phone addiction?

4. Why do we keep checking our phone?

5. What is “Phubbing”?

6. What increases after 5 days of quitting your phone?

7. For college students who actively use their phones, how long can they concentrate on subjects?

8. What happens every time you have to open a text message or check a notification?

Answers:

1. What chemical gets released in your brain when you use your cell phone?  How does this chemical make you feel?

The chemical is dopamine. It makes us feel satisfied and rewarded. (2:19-3:08)

2. If you’re addicted to your phone, what chemical gets released when you don’t check your phone for a while?

Cortisol (0:30-0:32)

3. What does “FOMO” stand for?  How is this connected to cell-phone addiction?

It stands for fear of missing out.  When we don’t check our cell phones, we worry that we are missing out on important information. (1:48-2:12)

4. Why do we keep checking our phone?

We can’t predict what is going to happen, so the unpredictability of it is addictive to our brain.  When we do check, we are constantly rewarded by notifications, likes, and communication. (2:47-3:10) 

5. What is “Phubbing”?

Snubbing your loved ones for your phone (3:49-3:53)

6. What increases after 5 days of quitting your phone?

Your attention span (4:23-4:27)

7. For college students who actively use their phones, how long can they concentrate on subjects?

Only 65 seconds (4:30-4:37)

8. What happens every time you have to open a text message or check a notification?

Your brain has to switch from task to task, making it harder for you to concentrate (5:05-5:19)

A Farewell to Handwriting?

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1. In what grade do you first start learning to write?
2. In what grade do you stop practicing writing in your lessons?
3. How many different scripts do you learn in school?  What are they?
4. Do you learn how to use a word processor at school?

A Farewell to Handwriting?  https://youtu.be/RJFDDd3arhA

Vocabulary:

penmanship: the ability to write neatly, or the activity of learning to do this

script: a particular style of writing letters

cursive: Cursive writing is written with rounded letters that are joined together.  

Cursive writing looks like this.

print: to write words without joining the letters together.  (This is the opposite of cursive)

word processor: a computer or computer program that you use for writing letters, reports, etc

credibility: a quality that means someone can be believed and trusted:

legibility: the fact of being easy to read, or the degree to which something is easy to read

peak: to reach the highest level or value of something

1. How many emails and text messages are sent every day?

2. Nowadays, for adults, what is the tactile personal art of handwriting used for?

3. Tamara Plakins Thornton has written a history about what?

4. In the time of the pilgrims, not everybody could write.  And there was something even more strange.  What was even more strange?

5. Nowadays, what is Spencerian script known for?

6. Who was the penmanship emperor of the 20th century?

7. What is “graphology”?

8. Before the 1920s, what is the only type of handwriting that students were taught?

9. What is something that Abraham Lincoln never did?

10. According to Steve Graham, Which kids have better quality writing over time: those who write by hand, or those who write on word processors?

11. Some people believe writing by hand is more effective for stimulating what?

12. According to Steve Graham, people form judgements about the credibility of your ideas based upon what?

13. When does our legibility tend to peak?  Why?

14. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown caused a national scandal because of his bad penmanship in one of his letters.  Who had he written the letter to?

15. What percentage of people call their penmanship excellent?

A Farewell to Handwriting?  https://youtu.be/RJFDDd3arhA

Vocabulary:

penmanship: the ability to write neatly, or the activity of learning to do this

script: a particular style of writing letters

cursive: Cursive writing is written with rounded letters that are joined together.  

Cursive writing looks like this.

print: to write words without joining the letters together.  (This is the opposite of cursive)

word processor: a computer or computer program that you use for writing letters, reports, etc

credibility: a quality that means someone can be believed and trusted:

legibility: the fact of being easy to read, or the degree to which something is easy to read

peak: to reach the highest level or value of something

1. How many emails and text messages are sent every day?

294 billion emails and nearly 5 billion text messages (1:02)

2. Nowadays, for adults, what is the tactile personal art of handwriting used for?

Shopping lists and credit card signatures (1:07)

3. Tamara Plakins Thornton has written a history about what?

Handwriting in America (1:35)

4. In the time of the pilgrims, not everybody could write.  And there was something even more strange.  What was even more strange?

Some people could read, but not write. (1:47)

5. Nowadays, what is Spencerian script known for?

Coca Cola logo (2:37)

6. Who was the penmanship emperor of the 20th century?

A.M. Palmer (2:57)

7. What is “graphology”?

Handwriting analysis (3:49)

8. Before the 1920s, what is the only type of handwriting that students were taught?

Cursive (4:19)

9. What is something that Abraham Lincoln never did?

Printed (4:27)

10. According to Steve Graham, Which kids have better quality writing over time: those who write by hand, or those who write on word processors?

Word processors (5:34)

11. Some people believe writing by hand is more effective for stimulating what?

Memory and language skills (5:59)

12. According to Steve Graham, people form judgements about the credibility of your ideas based upon what?

Your handwriting (6:14)

13. When does our legibility tend to peak?  Why?

Around 4th grade. Because that’s when instruction stops (6:28)

14. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown caused a national scandal because of his bad penmanship in one of his letters.  Who had he written the letter to?

The mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan (6:45)

15. What percentage of people call their penmanship excellent?

18% (7:10)

8 Childhood Lessons You Should Unlearn

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https://youtu.be/pCSHigem4_s

8 Childhood Lessons You Should Unlearn

What are the 8 childhood lessons you should unlearn

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Additional Questions

1. When we are children, what are our minds like?

2. If you believe that your emotions are wrong, what might you do?

3. According to Einstein, what will happen to a fish if it is judged by its ability to climb a tree?

4. What is something that everyone needs to learn at some point?

5. Why is being unique a good thing?

6. What should you be free to explore during childhood?

7. What is a healthy part of life?

8. What is something that everyone makes?

9. What will serve you as the basis for your values and beliefs?

Why do we have so much stuff? | BBC Ideas

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Why do we have so much stuff? | BBC Ideas

1. According to Dr. James Fitchett, what is the most interesting thing about consumption?

2. According to Hildegard Wieschofer-Climpson, what is an expression of our identity?

3. How does Emma Friendship-Kilburn feel when she buys something new?

4. According to Hildegard Wieschofer-Climpson, how does excessive consumption make us feel?

5. What happens when we have too many things?

6. How much time does Jacquie Otagburuagu spend shopping every day?

7. How would you describe the shopping habits of the grandmother generation?

8. How would you describe the shopping habits of the mother generation?

9. How would you describe the shopping habits of the daughter generation?

10. How were these three generations of women actually the same?

11. Why is Jacquie Otagburuagu trying to be more mindful of her shopping?

Why Our Brains Resist Change

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Why Our Brains Resist Change https://youtu.be/zFhR_KY7KrE

1. Do our brains like change?

2. What percent of our body mass is our brain?  

How much energy does our brain consume?

3. What are our brains designed to do?

4. Our brain wants to identify patterns, and then turn them into what?

5. What does change create?

Top 10 Biggest Fads That Went Away

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Top 10 Biggest Fads That Went Away           https://youtu.be/7mxIrBPMqxg

What is the definition of a fad?

	What is the name of the fad?	What is it?	Why did it become popular in the first place?	Why did it only last for a short period of time?
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English Language Learning Tips - Collocations

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English Language Learning Tips - Collocations  https://youtu.be/nh8r9SDmHn4

1. What does “collocation” mean?

2.  Are there any rules to explain collocations?

3. What are 3 words (or phrases) that can collocate with “make”?

4. What are 3 words or phrases that can collocate with “do”?

5. “Collocation” is a noun.  What is the verb form of “collocation” ?

6. Which of these does not collocate with “a job” ?

look for

apply for

get

catch

7.Which one of these words does not collocate with “money” ?

make

save

cash

time

8. Knowing collocations will help you in which parts of the exam?

9. Where can you find collocations?

10. When you learn a new word, what should you not forget to notice?

Youtube Videos Authentic Listening: Samantha Nutt on the Problems of Volunteer Tourism | NowThis

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Samantha Nutt on the Problems of Volunteer Tourism | NowThis     https://youtu.be/C6noWoS6QXw

1. How much money does the industry of voluntourism make every year?

2. How many people volunteer while on vacation every year?

3. When foreigners come to orphanages in Haiti or Cambodia to work with young children, does anyone do a background check on them to make sure they are not dangerous?

4. The orphanages have been accused of keeping conditions deliberately squalid (=very dirty and unpleasant).  Why would they do this?

5.  Young children in orphanages are often hyper-affectionate to the volunteer visitors.  Is this normal?

Youtube Videos Authentic Listening: What is a Tornado? The Dr. Binocs Show

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What is a Tornado? The Dr. Binocs Show | Best Learning Videos For Kids | Peekaboo Kidz

https://youtu.be/EpuDYZ_g0yg

1. What is one of the most extreme, brutal and potent forms of weather?

2. What are tornadoes also known as?

3. When the pointed part of a tornado touches the earth’s surface from the cloud, what is it often referred to as?

4. How long do most of the tornadoes last?

5. Where was the deadliest tornado ever recorded?

6. Where should you run if you ever come across a tornado?

Youtube Videos Authentic Listening: Living on the Moon

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[I used this video to supplement the lesson from Life Elementary Textbook 12C Looking for a New Earth p.146-147.  And the vocabulary that I highlighted in this lesson was deliberately chosen because it was also vocabulary used in the reading on page 147.  But I also think this listening can be used independently.]

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Match the words to the definitions

air breathe Earth humans planet plant sun

to take air into and out of your lungs the large, bright star that shines in the sky during the day and provides light and heat for the Earth a man, woman, or child the mixture of gases around the Earth that we breathe a living thing that grows in the soil or water and has leaves and roots a large, round object in space that moves around the sun or another star the planet that we live on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNrhADcTNBk

Match the words to the sentences

air, breathe, Earth, humans, planet, plants, sun

We’ve lived on the (1)____________ for a long time, and we’ve gotten pretty good at it.  In fact we’ve gotten so good at it that we’ve started thinking about living somewhere else.  Somewhere like… another (2)____________! Or even somewhere as close as our moon.  

Now one of the reasons we’re so good at living on the Earth is that it has pretty much everything we need.  Somewhere like the moon...doesn’t.

So if we want to live on the moon, we’re going to need to take a few things with us.  But what are the three basic things we need in order to live? That’s right: food, water, and (3)____________.  

Let’s start with air.  The moon has...none.  Humans need a combination of gases in order to (4)____________ like we do here on earth.  So what happens when we start running out?  We can bring more but that gets expensive.  So we need to find a way to make some more on our own.  How about adding some plants?  (5)____________ take our carbon dioxide and convert it into oxygen, and as a convenient by-product, we can eat them too.  That helps solve our food problem.  

But we’re forgetting one thing: Both (6)____________ and plants need water.  We’ll bring some to start and we’ve come up with some… clever ways of recycling it.  That can keep us going while we search for water or ice.  

So we have our food, our water, and air.  What else do we need to deal with?

That’s right: the (7)____________.  The Sun helps plants grow and we can use solar panels to give us power.  But too much Sun can be dangerous.  On the Earth, we’re protected by our atmosphere, so we get just enough sunlight.  But on the moon, there is no atmosphere.  So we need to protect ourselves from all that radiation.  

So now we’re living happily on the moon.  Well, what happens when we want to do something like order a pizza?  Well on Earth, we just pick up the phone.  We can do the same thing on the moon, but it’s not that simple.  We need satellites to make that call.  But seriously folks, our scientists on the moon will be doing more than just ordering pizza; they’ll be sending lots of information back to the Earth, so we can learn more about our new environment.  And when it comes to living in space, the more we know, the farther we can go.

Answers:

We’ve lived on the (1)Earth for a long time, and we’ve gotten pretty good at it.  In fact we’ve gotten so good at it that we’ve started thinking about living somewhere else.  Somewhere like… another (2)planet! Or even somewhere as close as our moon.  

Now one of the reasons we’re so good at living on the Earth is that it has pretty much everything we need.  Somewhere like the moon...doesn’t.

So if we want to live on the moon, we’re going to need to take a few things with us.  But what are the three basic things we need in order to live? That’s right: food, water, and (3)air.  

Let’s start with air.  The moon has...none.  Humans need a combination of gases in order to (4)breathe like we do here on earth.  So what happens when we start running out?  We can bring more but that gets expensive.  So we need to find a way to make some more on our own.  How about adding some plants?  (5)Plants take our carbon dioxide and convert it into oxygen, and as a convenient by-product, we can eat them too.  That helps solve our food problem.  

But we’re forgetting one thing: Both (6)humans and plants need water.  We’ll bring some to start and we’ve come up with some… clever ways of recycling it.  That can keep us going while we search for water or ice.  

So we have our food, our water, and air.  What else do we need to deal with?

That’s right: the (7)Sun.  The Sun helps plants grow and we can use solar panels to give us power.  But too much Sun can be dangerous.  On the Earth, we’re protected by our atmosphere, so we get just enough sunlight.  But on the moon, there is no atmosphere.  So we need to protect ourselves from all that radiation.  

So now we’re living happily on the moon.  Well, what happens when we want to do something like order a pizza?  Well on Earth, we just pick up the phone.  We can do the same thing on the moon, but it’s not that simple.  We need satellites to make that call.  But seriously folks, our scientists on the moon will be doing more than just ordering pizza; they’ll be sending lots of information back to the Earth, so we can learn more about our new environment.  And when it comes to living in space, the more we know, the farther we can go.