4. One Minute English Videos
so and such come / go / bring / take
actually cook / cooker / chef
sympathetic and nice last and take
remember and remind handling a call when you’re busy
been / come / gone say and tell
miss and lose how to confuse an American
interested and interesting used to do and used to doing
by and until
5. One Minute English Videos
http://www.simpleenglishvideos.com/sympathetic-nice-a-
90-second-english-lesson
7. One Minute English Videos
By and Until
Situation 1:
It’s a terrible day, but it’ll be nice by the weekend.
Gorgeous day! And it’s going to stay like this until the weekend.
Situation 2:
You can watch this until nine o’clock, but then we’re going to change channels. What’s
happening at nine o’clock? ‘Dancing with the Stars’ is on. She loves
that programme.
Situation 3:
I need your report by Friday. Friday is the deadline. You must give me your report on
Friday or before. I need your report until Friday. I have your report
and I’m going to need it all week. After Friday you can have it
back.
Situation 4:
So when will you be back? Errr, not until late. OK, I’ll probably be in bed by
the time you get home. OK. Have fun. See you. (Phone rings) Yes.
Are you in bed yet? Yes. I’ve forgotten my keys. Yes. I’ll be back
by twelve. Could you stay awake until I get back? Hello. Hello.
9. One Minute English Videos
What do you know about ...
a)The meaning
b)The grammar / form
of the words ‘remember’ and ‘remind’?
What are some differences between them?
10. One Minute English Videos
http://www.simpleenglishvideos.com/rememberremind
12. One Minute English Videos
Fill in the gaps with the correct form of miss or lose.
We went to the cinema last night. It was a great movie.
We ............ the first ten minutes. I ....... my car keys and it took a
while to find them. So we don’t know how the movie started. But it
had a great ending. When we ...... something, we can’t find it. This
is the only key we have, so don’t ....... it. What are you looking
for? Oh I ....... the remote. ‘.......’ means fail to catch, or fail to hit
the target. Ah! I ........ We can miss a bus, we can miss a train and
we can ....... a flight – fail to catch it. But we can’t ....... a bus. Not
unless we’re a very careless bus driver. ‘.......’ and ‘.......’ have
some other meanings as well. OK, I’m off. Oh, I’ll ....... you.
I’ll ....... you too. Bye darling. Bye, bye. So we can use ‘.......’ to
describe the sad feelings we get when somebody isn’t with us any
more. And ‘.......’ can mean the opposite of ‘win’. So who won the
match? Oh we ......., three nil. Ah! Heads or tails. Heads. Tails.
You .......!
14. One Minute English Videos
Fill in the gaps with miss or lose.
We went to the cinema last night. It was a great movie. We
missed the first ten minutes. I lost my car keys and it took a while
to find them. So we don’t know how the movie started. But it had a
great ending. When we lose something, we can’t find it. This is the
only key we have, so don’t lose it. What are you looking for? Oh I
lost the remote. ‘Miss’ means fail to catch, or fail to hit the target.
Ah! I missed. We can miss a bus, we can miss a train and we can
miss a flight – fail to catch it. But we can’t lose a bus. Not unless
we’re a very careless bus driver. ‘Miss’ and ‘lose’ have some
other meanings as well. OK, I’m off. Oh, I’ll miss you. I’ll miss you
too. Bye darling. Bye, bye. So we can use ‘miss’ to describe the
sad feelings we get when somebody isn’t with us any more. And
‘lose’ can mean the opposite of ‘win’. So who won the match? Oh
we lost, three nil. Ah! Heads or tails. Heads. Tails. You lose!
15. One Minute English Videos
learn and study lend and borrow older and elder
give and offer in time and on time rise and raise
story and history earn / win / gain / make money
tall and high any / very / lots of / a lot of
leave and let economics and economy
know / meet / get to know
16. One Minute English Videos
a) Prepare of get students to prepare a mini-dialogue for ‘funny’;
b) Prepare or get students to prepare a short explanation of ‘funny’;
c) Prepare or get students to prepare a mini-dialogue for ‘fun’;
d) Prepare or get students to prepare a short explanation of ‘fun’;
e) Get students to rehearse;
f) Film students.
18. One Minute English Videos
a) What the video ‘straight’;
b) Extract marker sentences from the transcript and get students to
see what they understand of the meaning;
c) Provide open questions about the meaning and form of the
language point;
d) Use the transcript as a gap-fill exercise;
e) Given them specific videos to watch for homework;
f) Get students to prepare other videos of other language points
relevant to their own needs and interests.
What I ’ m going to show you is part of a larger website for ESL teachers and students - http://www.simpleenglishvideos.com, created and featuring Vicki Hollett, a name that some of you may be familiar with, as she wrote business books Ín at the Deep End´ and ´Business Opportunities ’ . I ’ m going to focus on a section called ‘ One Minute English Lessons ’ .
She explains and illustrates these aspects of language in 60 (actually sometimes 90) seconds. I ’ m going to suggest omse ways we can use these in our teaching.
She explains and illustrates these aspects of language in 60 (actually sometimes 90) seconds. I ’ m going to suggest omse ways we can use these in our teaching.
We can use these videoas ‘ straight ’ , for example students watch the video, then tell each other what the differences are between the two words are, as with this example of ‘ sympathetic ’ and ‘ nice ’ .
You could get your students to think more about the language point before they watch the video by extracting some of the marker sentences and providing them with a pre-viewing task.
Here are some some of the illustrative sentences used to explain ‘ by and until ’ . Copy and paste them from the transcript under the video and make sure students understand the difference situations, then ask them to find the words ‘ by ’ and ‘ until ’ and in pairs / small groups, see if they can decide what the difference is between the two words.
When students have discussed the questions, you can then play the video for them to compare their answers, listening out for the rule given by Vicki, in this case: By: at or before a specific time. Until: for situations that continue up to a certain time. You can then get students to rehearse and act out some of the short sequences.
Another way to diagnse your students ’ current understanding and help them to listen actively is to ask them a simple open question about a language point such as this …
You can then play the video for them to see how much information they had in common with Vicki ’ s explanation and illustrations.
Another way to make use of the transcript below the video is to use it as a gap-fill, as in this video showing the difference between ‘ miss and lose ’ .
Students read and fill in the gaps with the correct form of ‘ miss or lose ’ .
They then watch the video and compare to their answers.
Of course, you could give your students the task to watch a specific video or videos for homework and report back to the rest of the class next lesson. There are other language points which could perhaps benefit from Vicki ’ s treatment, such as
Finally, you can also get your students to make their own versions of One Minute Videos. Here ’ s one way of getting them to develop a video
What we haven ’ t done is to look at follow-up work from these lesson ideas. Any thoughts that have struck you with any other ideas?
