Innovative+ELT+technique+for+teenagers+or+adults+(Tuğçe+Nur+Bozkurt)

**“What Happened Next?” ** I found an innovative ELT technique in Tech ELT blog by Tom Walton, which can be used with teenagers or adult learners in the EFL context in Turkey. In this technique teacher shows a video to the students. This video in the example is taken from Viral Video Chart by the blogger himself. And, she stops it after some time before the events starts and asks students the question “What is going to happen next?” And, then students will try to guess about the rest of the video clip. I think it is a very good idea to stop the video clip before the moment the events starts by this way teacher can attract the students’ attention to the lesson.
 * ONE INNOVATIVE ELT TECNIQUE FOR TEENAGES / ADULT LEARNERS **

I think that this technique can be used in lessons and in different ways easily. For example, after this video teacher can pass the topic “advertisement” and do vocabulary teaching lesson. Also, he can do a reading lesson after that video by giving a reading text about advertisement. Furthermore, it is possible to convert it to a speaking lesson by arranging a discussion about the topic “effective advertisement” or even a writing lesson plan can be done after this video by writing a paragraph or essay in the lesson according to the needs of the students.

 Tom Walton also added in his explanation of activity that if one of the students knew the video clip before the lesson s/he can take the notes of his/her pairs brainstorming. This idea is brilliant I think because it is important to involve all the students in the lesson by giving them responsibilities. I really like his idea however I think that with the common usage of the Internet and the social media, many people are familiar with the most of the video clips all around the world so I can suggest that teacher can prepare these kind of video clips on his/her own easily by using Windows Movie Maker. In this way, s/he can be sure about that no one has seen it before.

You can also watch the video clip in the example of Tom Walton from here; [] It is the address of his blog; []

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