Use of TV Shows with subtitles to improve Speaking and Listening Skills

 

Use of TV Shows with subtitles to improve Speaking and Listening Skills

Main Objective: This activity is designed to improve the speaking and listening skills of one student, it can be applied to a reduced number of students, not more than five is recommended because of the teacher may lose the ability to help then all since this exercise requires a lot of attention from the teacher.

Methodology: The communicative approach focuses on language as a means of communication. Recognizes that all communication has a social objective - the student wants to be understood and understood.

Required Materials: Computer, charts, pictures, whiteboard, sound system.

Lesson Procedure: Continuously exposition to native English speakers through the use of subtitled YouTube videos with subtitles.

Expected results: Improve in general Speaking and Listening skills, improve speech recognition, and more articulated vocabulary. 

The Student: Junior is fifteen years old in the first year of High School and he is having difficulty in the understanding of the speech by native speakers in normal speed, this activity is designed to help the student comprehend speech and acquire new words, phrasal verbs, idioms, and slangs, which are all part of the real-world use of the English Language.

Beginning of the Activity

The student will watch a TV show, in this example, the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, in an episode where he talks about the Health System in The United States in comparison with the ones in Canada and in the United Kingdom.

The student will watch the show with the subtitles in English and after that, he/she will watch again trying to speak with John Oliver, reading the subtitles. The teacher will help the student with a general understanding of what it’s going on, so the student doesn’t feel lost.

After watching the show, the teacher and the student could make a list of the new words and phrases they have learned and repeat those words before the beginning of the next section. This is an activity that will expose the English in its informal use

 Below we have an example of a CNN video informing about Mount Everest and general weather, the video has subtitles in English and is very easy to follow, keeping track of the spoken part of the video and the written part.

This activity must become a practice in the student’s life because it will not work with one section, this will have to be practiced many times for the results to appear.

End of Activity