Pau's video-podcast: Meeting New Friends

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SqTFgGiaEA

My Video-podcast

Series: Living in a Globalized World
Videopodcast: Meeting International Friends

I) Intended Students

The intended students for this videopodcast are 9th grade students, high school level. They are a group of 40 students from different social backgrounds that attend a public school in Valparaíso, Chile; so they all share the same first language: Spanish. At this level students have very basic knowledge of English, they know the pronouns, some basic regular verbs and daily life vocabulary such as window, pencil, door, etc.

The class is composed of 25 girls and 15 boys. This school has not much access to computers; there is just one computer laboratory with 30 computers, for the whole school. So, in this case I will work with my laptop, a pair of speakers and a proyector to show the video to all the students.

For this series students will need to know the present tense of the verb to be, the pronouns, the use of like and love to express likes, for example “like/love plus a to-infinitive verb or -ing”. They will also need to listen and understand spoken English.

II) Objectives

Content Objective for the whole Series: Recognize the importance of English in a globalized society; understand the diversity that exists in the United States, the different cultures that mix here and the different accents of English.

Language Objective for the whole Series: Write about likes and dislikes about Globalization.

Content Objective Individual Videopodcast: Learn how people introduce themselves in English; use of the verb to be and present tense; learn some structures to express likes.

Language Objective Individual Videopodcast: Become familiar with the vocabulary used to talk about oneself; talk about and introduce members of the family by showing pictures.

III) Videopodcast' s Elements

This videopodcast shows people from different countries introducing themselves, most of them are interntional students, and tend to talk slower and clearer, but some of them are native speakers and talk faster. Therefore, this videopodcast has the following elements to make it more comprehenive:

It has image so that the students can see the people speaking and their gestures.
It also has some visual aids such as texts and the flags of each country to support students understanding of the audio.
It has speakers from different nationalities to make it more interesting and eye-catching, so it shows students the usefulness of English to relate with people all over the world, and that motivates them to listen and try to understand.

IV) Strategies Used

In this videopodcast, I have applied several strategies that we have learned here in this four months. It has realia, because all the people in this video are common students that I have met during my stay here in the United States; besides it shows the students the importance of English in this globalized society. Therefore, it is motivating for students, because here they can find a purpose to learn English, a language that can act as a link between people from different countries and languages, so English can give students many opportunities in their lifes. It is also multimodal because it has image, audio and text. When I created this videopodcast I also had high expectations on these intented students, so I provide then some support with the flags of the countries and some texts, using the knowledge learned in the language technology class. So this is a good idea to create our own materials for classes in order to reach our specific goals.