Sunday, February 7, 2010

Reflection on BBC learning

Connie recommended to us a good language learning website BBC learning.
Recently I explored this wensite and I think it is quite helpful for assissting language learning and teaching.
Here I want to talk about a learning vedio, The Flatmates.

It has several advantages.
First of all, it is easy and suitable for the young learners to practise listening skill, spoken English as well as learn now vocabularies and phrases.
Secondly, the conversations are about topics in daily life, so it is very useful for the learners to practise.
Thirdly, there are subtitles so the learners can know how to spell the vocabularies that are new for them.
Finally, one episode is very short so it is not time-comsuming and can be very enjoyful to the young learners.
However, there is one disadvantage. The learners need to look up the new vocabularies they come across.

Then I list some useful words and phrases I found today.
1. fly off the handle
2. a pian on the neck
3. you drive me up the wall
4. magnanimous
5. vernomous
6. Chinese animal sign

2 comments:

Gibble said...

I wonder how easy it would be to do a sort of table top theatre using little cartoons on sticks much the same as the above You Tube clip.

Jenny said...

Nice vidio but lots of vocabulary for me.
I think this BBC website is much suitable for advance learners.
The BBC children homepage www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/

is more suitable for young learners but some of the videos there are not allowed to reach in Hong Kong.

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