This was one of the first video projects I made. My students are all beginner level, ALTE Breakthrough. The idea is very simple and can be done by any level. The objective is to describe your family. Students learned vocabulary related to family relationships, age and occupations. They were asked to use simple structures such as "This is my…", He is my..". In the video they could use pictures or actual family members to introduce them to the viewer.
In this project, students were asked to come up with and record a TV commercial. The lesson objective was describing machines and expressing frustration about machines. Students had to invent an electronic gadget based on current technology and talk about the advantages of their product, its uses and how it made life easier. They were encouraged to do sketches where “actors” would introduce the problems or frustrations related to technology.
The level corresponds to an adult ALTE 1 course. Our class book was Top Notch 1, by Joan Saslow and Allen Ascher, Pearson Longman, Unit 4: Coping with technology.
Another group chose to talk about obligations and permissions comparing schools in the United States and Chile.They prepared a questionnaire from Unit 6, Creative. They interviewed an American teacher at the binational institute where we work.
This is another amazing video by two students from a Creative 2A class.
