This video demonstrates a language teaching methodology focused on engaging students with a specific cultural topic, Thanksgiving, through interactive activities, group work, and text-based learning to improve language acquisition.
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hi and welcome to my channel this is
going to be one of the teaching videos
uh this lesson uh was recorded back in
summer 2016 while I was working in
Shanghai I was thinking whether I should
do um voice over commentary of the
things happening in the class you know
tell you why I do certain things why I
don't do other things but then I decided
Ed against it and just eded some
subtitles and some uh captions
underneath the uh main action so while
you're watching you can uh pay attention
to some things I edit at the bottom some
some tips some um um usual things I do
which I believe help Learners acquire a
language better I hope you like it enjoy
it so do you guys know anything about
this picture where where are these
this thank you can you speak it louder
please what is
this you're completely right this is a
Thanksgiving Day guys I'm going to give
you about 30 seconds to talk in your
groups about Thanksgiving Day what do
you know about this holiday or Festival
right I'm going to give you 30 seconds
okay uh one two
three thank you thank for looking at me
so I heard some really good answers let
me takee some of them guys um who are
this people on the right uh let me go to
David David who are they I think
pilgrims um this pilgrims here
right uh does everybody agree these some
some oh there the Ste right uh David U
could you help us out and spell the word
kilms uh p i i l g r i n s let out um
and I think you okay so pilgrims
everybody say pilgrim
thank you um Ruby thank you DAV thanks
Ruby uh what country did pilgrims come
from they come from England okay thank
you thanks uh let me go to Jack Jack I
heard some answers from your team about
these people who are
they how do you spell that i n
i great awesome good job there Jack Jack
okay uh someone can help uh David David
what country do they come from they come
from America okay yeah they are also
called Native Americans so today we are
going to talk about Thanksgiving Day
pilgrims and Americans so Native
Americans so let's have a look I want to
know how much you already know about the
teams in your teams you're going to work
together on five questions sorry four questions
questions
right both questions are here now I want
you to think and then Circle the right
answer or sometimes you need to write uh
you have a pen and a team okay now I
would like team captains to come up to
me and take a copy of the worksheet to your
your teamk
you
yeah so um before we start one more time
David we haven't started yet guys do you
need to answer do you need to answer
these questions here no only this one
right and can you write on this
copy yes you can actually you need to
write okay I'm going to give you about 2
minutes to finish this task and your
all right guys we have about 30 seconds
answer all right May St be there 1 2 3 I
you thank you guys for looking at me
awesome so I saw some good answers most
of you are correct you know a lot about
Thanksgiving there are some mistakes do
you think I'm going to give you the answers
answers
now I'll never give you answers right so
guys what I want you to do now is to go
and read a text about the
Thanksgiving now in the classroom uh
let's look around how many uh parts of
the text do you see or four of them
there's a a b c d now I want you to go
around the classroom and read the text
in your teams so uh let me see a guys
raise your hands one two three raise
your hands hands and up so you guys a
which letter are you guys b b and u d d
uh let me check what letter are you guys you
you
guys b and a d okay so guys please
remember this is B what letter is that c
c over there d d and here A A so
Gabriella uh where do you go
now okay thank you Ruby what a letter
are you where did you go you go
to are letter C see that's do you need
to read carefully yes
why uh let me go
to I didn't uh Tommy please um it can
help us how so if you reading only one
part if you don't understand your part
can you share it with your team yes can
you no so you need to read carefully
right are we ready all ready okay so uh
guys when you stand up I want you to
push your chairs in okay all right I'm
going to get full in five minutes and
all right guys now I'm going to give you
one minute to share what you learn about
Thanksgiving with your team one minute
and you can start now tell each other
all right guys thank you getting all
right uh one to three I you let me take
some answers from uh let me go to Leo
right Leo what did you read about I know
the there are 100 thank you good answer
guys thank you now I want you to unfold
your paper I want you to unfold your
paper and answer four more questions on
the other side now when you know a lot
about the text about Thanksgiving you
can go ahead and answer more questions
and for this task you will have 2
now okay all right Grace good job uh let
everyone everyone eyes me okay thank you
so guys before we check the answers all
together I want you to check with the
team next to you so everyone can stand
up and quickly look at each other
answers are the same or different all
quickly all right guys I think you had
enough time let's go back to our teams
now 3 2 one let's go over the questions
really quickly first of all what is
Thanksgiving in the United States and
why is it C so I want to hear some
answers so please raise your hands I
want to hear from Gabriella little bit
sleepy so Gabriella why what is
Thanksgiving and why is it called so
everyone what are we going to do now yes
listen to
loud thank you Gabriella good answer
Ruby could you please tell others what
Gabriel just said excuse me
she just said thankgiving is I think we
answered question number one let's go to
question number two and we have three
answers a b or
c board yeah so again I want you to show
me your hands this is a this is B this
is C okay hands ready hands on the desk
a b it's look at your sheet tell me what
is the answer 3 2 1 go okay let see a
lot of C's right so what do people do
people get together with their families
they eat they watch TV and eat dinner
great let's move on to question number
three what year was the first
Thanksgiving I want to piek someone uh
Tommy you spoke a lot today uh Catherine
right Katherine what was the year of the first
Thanksgiving you guys
agree yeah and Catherine's absolutely
correct Catherine five good job reading
skills 62
uh one okay next one let's talk about
food now first of all let's say which
food is not usual for the Thanksgiving I
want your hands a b c 3 2 1 go okay B B
all right you to hear from everyone now
so when I say 1 2 3 you just shout the
answer are you ready 1 2 three
Ro good job next
one potato S one more
time potato okay say two um words you
tell me which one is right mashed potato
or mashed potato a mash it mashed
mashed okay uh 3 2 1 which one mashed
potato or mashed potato mash this one
right everybody say mashed potato mashed
potato yeah this B is a big trick isn't
it mashed potato next one gra I want to
hear from everyone 3 2 1 go gra uh the
spelling uh let me go to Candy can youve
been a bit quiet today KY Oliver I'm
fine good answer thanks for your
participation now guys let's move on to
the last to the last part of our lesson
now um let me invite Tommy Tommy can we
help out here guys how many questions
are there on the
board six question Tommy Tommy I'm going
to give you a paper clip uh and I'll
have a paper clip myself too guys Tommy
has got yellow paper clip what question
me go ahead what is your favorite
Festival in uh well I like uh Halloween
because of people very uh wear fancy
dress and it's just cool and round now I
have blue one which question do you I
me popular
so Tommy could you tell me what foods
are popular on Thanksgiving
tur thank you high five now when we
answer each other questions we're going
to swap or exchange the paper clips now
can I ask someone else now do you have a
paper clip no no so I'm going to hand
out paper clips when you have a paper
clip I'd like you guys to come over here
read a question find someone and ask
them okay can you do that okay great
thank you so I'm going to give you four
paper clips you can stay here uh guys
four paper clips for
you yeah um everyone come here
go Thanksgiving you did guys a really
good job right so I'd like to thank you
and show you a small uh movie about
Thanksgiving now while you're watching I
want you to hear out for a phrase or
what people say during Thanksgiving can
one Along Comes This Bo and can you
believe it as big as I am it bumps into
me ow say I think you The Rock The Rock
oh whatever let's plant the flag shall
we so the pilgrims got off the we should
do this every
year and so began the tradition of
Thanksgiving when family and friends get
together to fellowship and eat and thank
Thanksgiving so guys um what was a
question I asked you while you're
watching here out for what what listening
listening
Thanksgiving
Happy Happy Thanksgiving Day yeah Happy
Thanksgiving Day let me say Happy
Thanksgiving I don't want to say thank
you guys for amazing class I want to
thank uh teachers and uh teachers at
Chen Bing school to come over to watch
demo class I hope you enjoyed it I hope
it wasn't too boring it's bit hot now so
I think we better finish right thank you than
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