How can you best Youtube to teach English online?

[waleedwahsh]

I’m doing a bit of a research on the best way to use short clips from Youtube to teach English online and I would be grateful for your opinion and advice on the following:

- Do you think it's a good idea to teach English online using short Youtube clips?

- How would you best structure a language lesson around a short video clip for online language teaching?

Thank you so much in advance.

[AlexCase]

It can be a good idea, it depends on the clip, how you use it, and what you want to teach. Perhaps the simplest way is to use a clip just like a listening comprehension, with vocabulary pre-teach, comprehension questions etc. It is also possible to use clips without worrying about the dialogue, e.g. getting students to describe what is happening in Mr Bean or Pingu videos.

[waleedwahsh]

Thanks for your reply. Here's a link a link to a sample page from the tool I'm working on to show you what I mean

http://www.imimic.net/read_sentence.asp?id=32

Would you leave it like this so teachers can use it in their own classrooms the way they like? Or would you add more functionality and/or content (e.g. a vocab pre-teach, comprehension questions, grammatical points, ... etc.)?