Edpuzzle.BRITISH MANNERS

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We have been working with a unit which dealt with manners in general along this month. that's the reason why I have chosen some videos related to these issues.
I divided the class into groups so that they worked with different videos.
The learning objectives to reach with this activity are:

• to reflect upon other cultures,
• to contrast British manners with Spanish etiquette
• to learn how to express obligation, lack of obligation, necessity, lack of necessity...

For this reason, we had some practice with modal verbs (obligation, advice, necessity...) in class and dealt with appropriate vocabulary.

I decided to carry out flipped learning to give students a greater autonomy and to focus on the activities in class due to the fact that there are many students in my virtual classroom. Therefore, they had to watch the corresponding video at home and I gave them a short list of vocabulary that they should know when watching the video.
In the case of the video I upload here, the list of words were:

1. be punctual
2. turn up late
3. jump the queue
4. push ahead in a line
5. reserved for
6. tipping
7. personal space
8. frowned upon

They should search for a synonym to explain them later to their classmates.

During the second stage, the while listening activities, each group watched the video and did the corresponding proposed activities (open questions and multiple choice quizzes) and, at the same time, they answered the questions in the voice notes.

After that, students made a short review of their videos to the rest of the class and they compared what they had heard. In the same way, new vocabulary was explained using the synonyms they had searched at home.

As a final activity, I asked them to record a video where they had to contrast British manners with Spanish ones and give appropriate examples they had seen in the videos.

In general, I think that working with videos is quite more motivating than with audios and, of course, they enjoyed a lot with the British examples referred to queing, for example. Apart form working on modal verbs, they have learn about respect for other cultures and I think they consider this topic as useful for them, since it helps them in a possible trip to the United Kingdom, for example.

Although flipped learning is a good idea, it is true that there are students who don't prepare the task at home and, consequently, they feel a bit lost during the activity, maybe next time I should look for a more efficient way of checking work home.

This is my video: