Using videos to teach vocabulary and more…
It couldn’t be easier to get video into the classroom these days, so why not take advantage of the wide variety of interesting contexts and easily-available authentic language?
An example of this is to use Shakespeare Speaks BBC video series about the life, times and language of William Shakespeare. It is available as an animated series and it has a supporting interactive website, downloadble materials, podcasts and a rich social media experience. Find more at Shakesperare Speaks at BBC Learning
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- As dead as a doornail
- I’ll send him packing
- All that glisters is not gold
- Strange bedfellows
- Though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t
- Wild-goose chase
- What’s done is done
- The world’s mine oyster
- A tower of strength
- Spotless reputation
- The green eyed monster
- In a pickle
- Forever and a day
- Give no words but mum
- Pound of flesh
- A fool’s paradiset
- I must be cruel, only to be kind
- Wear my heart upon my sleeve
- Greek to me
