hi this is Russell Stannard from teachertrainingvideos.com
today what I've got is a whole lesson plan for you this is great for language teachers but it
could actually be used for almost any kind of area of the curriculum it's really about getting our
students to introduce themselves or to present somewhere somewhere special somewhere they like
I'm going to combine working with two free tools google earth and word wall and what you're going
to see is that this technology is lovely because it really does open up loads of opportunities
for students to do speaking activities and to present themselves or present somewhere special
to them perhaps where they went on holiday where they went to school where they were born their
favourite café their favourite gym a monument they like in their town or in another town
I've used this in so many ways and I've seen students do such fantastic presentations
using google earth so this is a whole lesson plan you'll get lots of ideas from it's really
worth watching it through and seeing all the different ideas that I share with you
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so there's lots of ways that I've used google earth and I'm going to show you
uh how google earth works so it's one of your apps okay and the very first time I used it was with
a group of boys in Italy I was going over to Italy to do some practice lessons and so what
I thought was that I would start my lesson by introducing them to my favourite football club
now I've used this idea many times since just as a way of introducing myself and so I'm going to
introduce myself to you and let you know a little bit about me so I come over to Stamford bridge
which is the home of my favourite football club Chelsea notice you can just close it like that
and then if you notice you can go 2d view and when you do 2d view it starts spinning round
and you can also so that's 3d view and then you can click on 2d view and that's from the top
remember if you click on 3d view it starts spinning round but you can stop it at any
point now what I do is I do a little presentation where I just talk about Stanford bridge and how I
often go there and I explain a little bit about the history of the football club it's Chelsea
they were formed in 1905 I first went to a football match in 1972
I tell them a little bit about where it's situated that it's in Fulham not in Chelsea and I show
them that Chelsea is over here you can hold your mouse down and move around you can also move out
and move in now I just do a little introduction and introduce myself and then one final thing I
do I just want to show you this because this is kind of really nice if we come back to 3d view
and as I said it kind of spins around and it gives you this great view of the area
and you can remember anytime you click on the screen it will actually stop so it's great for
doing presentations you know you can present all sorts of places just to give you some examples I
visited Sydney opera house I've visited empire state building I've gone off to where I went
on holiday in in in Thailand I've gone off to Bali but notice you can grab the little
guy here and actually if you just do it really slowly just hold your mouse down and pick him up
and then you can drop him down so what I actually do is I show people where I
walk into the stadium and it comes right down onto the screen so this is really a good way of
doing a little presentation that's got a really nice interest and people can it can can present
anything because they can actually come down to street level and they can even for example start
by presenting the area where they were born and even show people the house that they were born in
you can come down to street level so what I do is I do a little presentation about Chelsea and
then I give the students an exercise to do and next I'm going to show you that exercise
now what you could do is you could do the presentation at the end of the lesson but
then for homework the students have to first of all do this activity to check they followed your
presentation and then afterwards they can prepare their own presentation for the next lesson and the
activity that I created was in this website called word wall you can sign up to word wall for free
and in this one all about Chelsea all the students have to do is just and I'll just quickly show
you the game so the game works like this where you have to go sort of right Chelsea's stadium
is Stanford bridge Chelsea was founded in 1905 etc so you dragged the correct answers in once you've
completed all your answers you simply click on submit and it gives you the answers now the good
thing is that it actually tracks the students when they do this as well so what you can do afterwards
I'll quickly show you is if I go to the results and I look at one of the activities I've done
about Chelsea and I've done it I've used it quite a few times so I'm sure I can find
an example let me just come down here okay here for example I can click on the results and I can
see which questions the students got right and which questions they got wrong and it even tells
me a breakdown of where students made mistakes so this is the activity do I do immediately
after the presentation either in the class you could do it in the class or you could do it um
with the students uh as for homework now how do you how do you actually set the activity
for the students well it's really easy all you do is choose the activity you obviously
make the activity click on share and then just click on set assignment click on start
and you share that link with the students okay and then the students can do that activity so
you could share that link for the students to do for homework or could be in the class if you're
doing a zoom session or using perhaps Microsoft teams just share the link in the chat room
so just to show you how I made that activity the activity that I used if
you click on create activity the one I used was match up so the very first one there
and if we come back to the activities and we click on all about Chelsea all I did if we could edit
content you'll see how easy it is I just wrote sentences so simple just wrote out the sentences
completely these sentences and then I clicked on done so it's really easy to use this technology
and as I said once you've clicked on the done button to share the activity all you need to do
so that your students can use the activity is click on share click on set assignment
I always ask them to put their name in and then click on start and then you copy that
share the link and don't forget you can get the results from here once they've done the activity
now the third part of the activity is for the students then to prepare
their own presentations and this for me has worked really well so I tell students okay you
now present somewhere now that could be a place that you visited went on holiday your favourite
place in in the city that you live in or anything it could be the coffee bar they go to a monument
they like a museum that they enjoy visiting a place that they've gone uh for for a visit it
really doesn't matter where they were born where they went to school I've had students do all sorts
of presentations and it's absolutely brilliant because they can go to google earth and find a
place that they can present and let me just show you one final thing about google earth
now you can be really accurate I'm going to try and do something I'm going to go
I'm going to write an owl
crabby
and hopefully it's going to be bring me down to in fact it is it's going to be bring me right down to
uh the area let's just just click on this one here okay so it's going to bring me into that actual
place where I want on holiday about four or five years one of my favourite holiday locations and
it brings me in to that area now I'm just going to close that down now what I can do now is I can
actually come in even closer so I can just click on here and bring myself in as close as possible
to the region and if I want to and I know where I need to go look at this I'm just going to show you
where I went on holiday so I can come right down and just click and now that I've got this close
to the area what I can do now incredibly is I can take my little man and see that I
can even drop myself onto the beach okay so I'm gonna just come down right onto this beach here
and now I come right down to the level and this gives you a bit of an idea of where I was okay
absolutely fantastic to be able to do that okay so you could do that with the place
you were born where you went to school the place that you went on holiday so this is a
great way of getting your students to and it's very nice because it's personalizing language
so really love working with google earth but then it's always nice to think what you
what are you going to ask the students to do while they listen to the other student doing
a presentation are they going to take notes okay so maybe then they've got to take notes and learn
five things about the student or learn five things about where the the presentation that
kind of thing think carefully about what you're going to ask the students to do but working with
google earth is really really powerful and it's something I've done with really young learners
okay even as young as 13 14 and they've done presentations about their favourite football
teams when I was out in Italy and very you know with adults who are just just literally
presenting one special place on on planet earth that they want to show and talk about to everyone
else and I give the students about four minutes or five minutes each to do their presentations
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i hope that was useful please come over to teachertrainingvideos.com if you want more
free technologies on the opening page I always add some special ones here about language teaching uh
some of the most popular ones but there's also a language teaching section uh that you can make use
of with loads and loads of different free tools available not only for English but also for other
languages as well if you want to follow my work the best thing to do is sign up to the newsletter
you get a free mini course in using technology and teaching and you get updates on all the latest
videos the latest blogs the latest online courses and the latest webinars the other
thing that you can do is follow me on my YouTube channel and don't forget to click on the bell to
get the updates and finally if you were thinking of asking me to do a presentation or some training
at your organization then you can contact me from the website and thank you very much