Iconic Teen Video

Using video clips amongst teenagers tin locomote enormously motivating for them, IF you lot larn the correct content. Getting the content correct involves taking a await into the lives of our students too finding out what sort of things they are watching.

One of the most high profile examples of this is LonelyGirl15.
LonelyGirl15, which became a Youtube phenomenon, depicted a immature teenage daughter talking to her photographic television set camera too discussing some of the intimate, bizarre too oftentimes incredibly petty issues of her life. The ‘show’, a serial of 2 -4 infinitesimal clips, was shortly attracting audiences of millions too it shortly emerged that it was a ‘fake’ too that the LonelyGirl15 was an actress working amongst a pocket-size cinema crew too script writer.
Since thence the exhibit has transformed into a sort of on going thriller. at that spot is straightaway both a United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland version, KateModern equally good equally the master copy LonelyGirl15 series.
For to a greater extent than data on the plot too background see: LG Pedia

These ii shows furnish a huge potential source authentic linguistic communication equally teenagers inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too North America speak it. It’s too wrapped upward inward a context too genre which teenagers / 20-somethings tin lay to. Though using this stuff isn’t without its pitfalls too drawbacks.

What I similar almost it

• The clips are short, but self contained too volition download quite quickly.
• They truly exhibit the agency that English linguistic communication is beingness used yesteryear immature adults.
• The clips are quite enigmatic too the storey is inferred too implied rather than depicted, thence the stuff tin locomote useful for developing students thinking too deductive skills.
• Many of them bargain amongst immature people’s issues too attitudes
• The characters appear similar really ordinary people
• The clips tin locomote really engaging

Here’s a only a distich of examples, from a collection of hundreds of clips which I mean value could good locomote usable.

From LonelyGirl15: Boy problems



From LonelyGirl15: Parent problems



From KateModern: H5N1 proposal



From KateModern: The order




Some ideas for using this stuff amongst students

• Students to sentinel a unmarried clip too brand deductions almost the story, what’s been happening to the character, what the relationships are to other people mentioned etc.
• Students to sentinel dissimilar clips thence construct upward too telephone commutation grapheme data too motility to attain upward one's hear what the relationships are betwixt diverse characters
• Students persuasion the clip without audio too brand deductions almost the topic too mood of the person
• Create essence or specific data questions
• Get your students to sentinel too thence write questions that they would similar to inquire the character
• Get your students to attain too video their ain reply to i of the characters inward the videos
• Get your students to sentinel for cultural data too await for things that would locomote dissimilar amongst their ain civilization (clothes, family objects, agency people interact, gestures etc.)
• Get students to sentinel too compare a clip from the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too the North American serial too lay differences inward the role of language.
  
• Get students to sentinel too compare a clip from each serial without audio too await for cultural too environmental differences betwixt United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland too North American culture
• Create give-and-take classes around some of the issues touched on inward the clips
  
• Students attain their ain localised version of the series.

What I'm non thence certain about

• Some of the clips comprise violence too bad linguistic communication too exhibit immature people drinking. This is something you lot mightiness truly emmet to bargain amongst inward class, or avoid altogether, thence locomote careful which clips you lot choose.
• You mightiness convey to locomote prepared to defend your role of this sort of stuff if your students larn habitation too foremost watching it inward front end of their parents
• Much equally I uncovering this persuasion into the the world of 'young people today' (Did I truly write that?) quite intriguing I too uncovering it slightly disturbing

Anyway, whether nosotros similar this sort of content or not, it does appear to locomote the sort of matter that is becoming increasingly pop equally meshing entertainment, too if nosotros truly desire to engage amongst our students too engage them inward our classes, I don't mean value nosotros tin afford to ignore it.

I would too honey to hear from anyone who has been using LonelyGirl15 or KateModern amongst your classes, thence delight ship service a comment too portion your experience.

Best

Nik