The making of our Student Video Project, part 2: lights, camera, action!

Stage, check. Cameraman, check. Preparation, check. Lights, camera, action!

Part two of our video project consisted of an individual pronunciation challenge. Each of the conversation class students had to choose a tongue twister poem at random and recited it on the spot in order to showcase some of the oral expression skills that they have attained throughout the trimester. 

One important lesson that students observed in this activity was that sometimes confidence can be just as important as practice when it comes to speaking skills. While some of the students became understandably nervous in part two, classmates helped calm their nerves in front of the camera, reminding each other to focus on body language, smiling and posture. 

When you watch the video, try to see if all our students stuck to the script, or if you can say these tough alliterations with such finesse. The lyrics have been included as subtitles in the video so that you can follow along.

The final chapter of the video project is the Remember that! quiz show. Here students prepared trivia questions for their classmates to answer. The content came directly from the topics covered in previous classes, i.e. oral presentations, expressions, idioms and vocabulary. Only the person asking the questions knew the correct answers, so the conversation and banter in this portion of the video is totally spontaneous and unrehearsed. 

This "raw material" gives a lot of insight into what each individual´s strengths and weaknesses are. In the next post we will see the finished product of the video project and look more in depth at what each student can improve, patterns of mistakes and overall intelligibility.

Stay tuned!