Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Audio-visual Aid: TV Cooking Show

TV shows can be exploited for language learning. I mentioned before that you could record any of various types of TV shows, such as news, sitcoms, documentary films, comedies, etc. Group 6 had a short video clip taken from a cooking show on TV.

(A snapshot of the video clip will be available soon.)

The video clip contains a step-by-step procedure of making curry fried rice (yummy!drooling). The students should watch the clip while noting down the ingredients and the steps of cooking the curry fried rice. They are allowed to view the clip several times to make an accurate note. The result is a piece of writing in the form of a procedure text. I think it's an interesting way to teach procedure text.thumbs up