This document summarizes Gerard McLoughlin's presentation at the 1st ELT Malta Conference on changing perspectives in English language teaching. The presentation discussed how teachers can help students develop more open-minded perspectives by exposing them to videos that illustrate important concepts like inclusion, disability rights, and population growth. It also provided bibliographic references for course books and video clips used in the presentation. The overall message was that exposing students to these ideas can help change their worldviews for the better.

1. Changing Perspectives
Gerard McLoughlin
TESOL-SPAIN
1st ELT Malta Conference: Current Trends in ELT 14-
15 September 2012

3. • So each of us CAN help one another by -- stopping a
moment of a our day --- to change for the better someone
else's 'blind world'. . . for a day . . .
• My teacher showed this and now I just can’t stop watching
it!!!!
• Reminds me of when I gave a homeless blind man 75 cents
in Chicago
• I thought why can’t they at least put the money in the can
too, but at least after the change they took the time to bend
down and place the monet instead of throwing it
• Just beautiful!!

4. Power of words
Headlines
• go to war
• Shakira and Antonito go to war.
• Boost
• Games boost UK employment figures
Places
• Fort St Elmo, Knights of St John, Mdina
Words with evocative meaning
• dark horse, unleashing

7. © Fast Track, Holley and McLoughlin, Ricmond Santillans 2012

9. 1 What kind of videos are these:
a documentary? music video? advertisement?
television show?
2 What do they have in common?

10. © Campaign for Disability, Lyndsey Clandfield

12. Which clip do the phrases come from.
Write C for ‘close my eyes’ and I for ‘I can’
____ Can’t believe what we’ve done.
____ I can boost your bottom line.
____ I can’t believe how far we’ve come.
____ I’m feeling so free.
____ If you don’t have an open mind.
____ If you don’t recognise my talents and ability.
____ It’s what people can do that matters.
____ Open my heart.
© Campaign for Disability, Lyndsay Clandfield

13. Which video was more effective? Why?
Do you think this is an important message?
‘See the person first, not the disability’
Is this hard for most non-disabled people?

14. 7 billion
• How long would it take you to count to 7 billion?
• What could the population be by 2045?
• How many people are born every second?
• How long did the average person live in 1960?
• If 7 billion people stood shoulder to shoulder, which city
would they fill?
• How many megacities were there in 1975? Which were
they? How many now?
• What percentage of the population don’t have adequate
sanitation?
• How many languages do we speak in the world?

19. © Next Generation, Higgins, McLoughlin, Durrant, Vidal, Cambridge English 2011

20. Guardian Women 100
A celebration of the centenary of International Women's Day.
• Aung San Suu Kyi? Oprah Winfrey? Tanni Grey-Thompson? JK Rowling?
Margaret Thatcher?
• Women make up between __% and __% of the world's poor, illiterate and
refugee populations.
• A girl growing up in _____ today has about the same chance of dying
while giving birth as she has of going to secondary school.
• While girls often do better than boys at school, women working full-time
in the UK are paid on average less per hour than men – 40 years after the
Equal Pay Act – and fill just ____% of boardroom posts in leading
companies.

21. • Women make up between 70% and 80% of the world's poor, illiterate
and refugee populations.
• A girl growing up in Chad today has about the same chance of dying
while giving birth as she has of going to secondary school.
• While girls often do better than boys at school, women working full-
time in the UK are paid on average less per hour than men – 40 years
after the Equal Pay Act – and fill just 12.5% of boardroom posts in
leading companies.

22. • Shirin Ebadi, the human rights activist and
first Muslim woman to win the Nobel prize,
has already won recognition.
• Others are less well known: the Indian
lawyer who took on the case of a destitute
woman who died giving birth in a Delhi
street and won a landmark ruling from the
high court last year for women in a similar
position.

23. Reader’s response
• I vote Lorella Zanardo because she is doing a fantastic job to
educate Italian adolescents to watch tv in a discerning way,
which is something missing completely in Italian schools. She
is now an "Internet star" and travels the world with her
documentary, Il corpo delle donne, about the mis-representation
and stereotypes of women's bodies on the Italian tv. If you
haven't done it yet please watch it. In a country dominated by
Berlusconi's media and vision Lorella, a woman like us but with
a big vision, is making a difference. Her educational project is
almost totally self financed.

30. • Big Boy. Rapero, 19 años
• "Deseo que el mensaje del rap se aproxime a los
jóvenes para concienciar y progresar juntos en un
futuro mejor. Estas ideas constructivas harán mis
sueños realidad". El rap es un estilo proscrito. Big
Boy y la veintena de sus compañeros están
condenados a la clandestinidad y las autoridades
tratan de desprestigiarles

31. • Sami Mosayevi. Artista, 27 años
• "Me gustaría retomar mis alas y sentirme
libre para viajar a cualquier lugar del
mundo, sin pertenecer a ninguna parte.
Querría probarlo todo". Las aficiones o la
vocación de uno también chocan a menudo
con el muro de las prohibiciones.

32. • Naser. Futbolista, 24 años
• "Mi vida es el fútbol y mi sueño sería jugar
en la liga profesional en Europa". El 70%
de la población iraní tiene menos de 30
años.

34. Thank you for coming and hope I’ve changed
your perspective!!
Talk available on:
http://www.slideshare.net/Gerard58/changing-
perspectives-malta

35. Bibliography
Course books:
Fast Track 4, Holley and McLoughlin, Richmond, 2012
Next Generation, Higgins, McLoughlin, Durrant, Vidal, Cambridge University
Press 2011
Video clips:
The power of words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU
Neil Harbisson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpOVZmK-e58
Disability website:http://disabled-accessfriendly.com/
Close my eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I550mx8QlI
Campaign for disability “I can”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=BG_W7wAe1kw
7 billion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4HxPxNrZ0
Lorella Zanardi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JtyvOeMSHY
Hollow face optical illusion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHuStlT1RM8