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Riba, Dalma: Using Video in the Classroom

- 162 and for documentaries: Where is the pa Ice? What objects are shown? Why is it interesting? Language could also be focussed on: students try to predict what people are saying. When silent viewing, students might do such exercises as to match sentences with speakers (which obviously they did not hoar). Freezing a frame is in some ways similar to silent viewing; it works well during the second or third watching. As it has been pointed out earlier, freeze frame is a treasury of information. The clothes, age, behaviour, etc. of characters can all be involved in questions or filling in tables; and this technique makes it possible to elaborate on culturespecific features that appear (anything from the emerald of the lawn to a sticky Brighton rock). Speech might become easier for a great number of students as facial expressions iielp them to get at the correct pronunciation, placement, of stress and appropriate intonation. Verb tenses can also !m practised efficiently either by students commenting the section (with tire sound off, audio-dubbing) or by mere description of what they have seen. All the conventional methods can conveniently be applied with video (completion exercises, filling in sentences or tables, even reading is possible with presenting students die tapcscript or a concise version ot it). Written exercises are used as follow-up. Video ulitmately should be a stimulus for language production. From the stage of reception this process with some simplification could be described as follows: reception comprehension practice reproduction/reinforcement production. I think for trainee teachers it would be rewarding to focus on beginner/elementary and intermadiate levels. The amount and the complexity of language presented to primary school learners must carefully be controlled. There are ELT materials (eg. A Weekend Away in Streamline English, OUP) that are designed to satisfy the needs of a