This is an improved version of a previous lesson plan. In order to prepare for the activity, you will need 3 things:
- Your students’ email addresses
- The following slideshow:
recall-the-clips-slideshow.pdf - A tennis ball
NB Although you will a computer in class to show the slideshow, you won’t need internet access.
Preparation
1. Using the copy and paste functions, send the following links to your students:
- A dog sleeping like a chicken
- A rabbit opening a letter
- A hamster eating a piece of popcorn on a piano
- A dog attacking a toilet
- A man doing a backflip into his jeans
- 2 cats keeping fit
- A duck biting a dog’s ears
- A chimpanzee falling off a tree
- A panda getting a fright
- A basketball player jumping over a car
- A chimpanzee washing a cat
- An elephant painting a portrait
2. You will be able to procede with the activity when students have watched the links.
Procedure
1. Show students the slideshow and ask them to recall the titles of the clips (”2 cats keeping fit“, “a rabbit opening a letter“, etc). Write these on the board and help students with vocabulary and grammar.
2. Put students into pairs, wipe the board clean and ask them to recall the titles of all twelve video clips.
3. Let pairs merge to compare their answers before conducting a class feedback.
4. Tell your students that they are going to play another memory game. Write the following words on the board:
I watched YouTube and I saw …
In this game, the first person has to complete the sentence using one of the video clip titles from before:
I watched YouTube and I saw a chimpanzee washing a cat.
The student then throws the tennis ball to another student who has to repeat the whole sentence and add another video clip title:
I watched YouTube and I saw a chimpanzee washing a cat and a dog sleeping like a chicken.
The ball is passed from student to student and the sentence gets bigger and bigger (and more difficult to remember).
I watched YouTube and I saw a chimpanzee washing a cat, a dog sleeping like a chicken, a man doing a backflip into his jeans, a panda getting a fright, an elephant painting a portrait and a basketball player jumping over a car.
5. Tell your students that one of the clips is actually an advert and ask them if they can work out which one it is and what product it is for (answer = the basketball player is advertsing Nike. This is the perfact example of viral advertising. The jump would seem to have been created by computer-generated graphics).