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Video Project

Yan Liu & Shuai Li


INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES

Target language: English

Level: Elementary I

Target student population: University/College students


Learning objectives

A.Basic communicative functions

Communicative function

Target phrase / structure

Greetings

Good morning!

Nice to meet you!

Requesting

Would you mind + v-ing?

Sure.

Thanking

Thank you!

You’re welcome!

Leaving taking

I got to go.

(I will) see you (later)

Bye-bye / Bye


B.Vocabulary

Morning

Mind

Sure

Thank

Welcome

See you

Later

Bye-bye

Ready


German

Japanese


Copy machine

One sided

Two sided

Format

Press





PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES


Stage One:

Before watching the video. Teacher ask the following questions:

What language do you speak?

What language are we studying? Is it easy / difficult?

How do you thank / greet other people in English?

How do you say goodbye to others in English?

How do you ask for help in English?


Stage Two:

Watch the video and finish the following exercises

A.Answer the following questions

1.Is Ben a first year student? How about Cathy?

2.What language does Cathy study? What about Ben?

3.What does Cathy want to do?


B.Watch the video again, and fill in the blanks in the following dialogue.

Cathy: Good morning! I’m Cathy.

Ben: _________________ I’m Ben.

Cathy: I’m a new student here.

Ben: _________________, Cathy. I’m a second year student. Cathy, so, what language do you study?

Cathy: German. __________________?

Ben: I study Japanese. Actually, I know nothing about German. Is it really hard?

Cathy: No, not really. Oh Ben, ___________________ telling me how to use this copy machine?

Ben: ________________.


(At the copy machine)

Ben: So you put your paper here. You choose your format, either one sided or two sided. And then, you set how many copies you want, and then press “Start”. You are ready to go then.

Cathy: OK, yeah, ______________ !

Ben: ________________! Well I’ve got to go. I will _________________.

Cathy: Ok, see you. Bye!

Ben: _____________!


C.Now, categorized the following phrases/structures according to their functions (Complete Table 1.).


Would you mind + v-ing?

I got to go.

Good morning!

Nice to meet you!

Thank you!

You’re welcome!

See you (later)

Bye-bye


Table 1.

Communicative function

Target phrase / structure

Greetings


Requesting


Thanking


Leaving taking



D.Work with your partner to act out the dialogue.


Stage Three

Work with your partner to create your own dialogue. Make sure to use the expressions you wrote down in Table 1.


Homework

Write down and furnish the dialogue your partner and you created in the class.