Working the listening skill with Edpuzzle

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Hi everyone.

Today we are going to work the listening skill with Edpuzzle. Listening to a foreign language is hard work, especially for young children and we must not forget that it is not a passive activity as it might seem and may make students feel anxious or discouraged. 
We are going to use an authentic video to work the parts of a house. The main activity is a videos explaining the parts of a house, to be more specific a tree house. I have taken the video and I have adapted the content to my students. For that purpose I have use a website called "Edpuzzle" and it provides a lot of possibilities to edit the video and include questions, so for that reason is important to listen carefully to answer the comprehension questions.
As we are working the topic about parts of a house, and at the same time my students are studying typs of houses in Social Sciences. So I coordinate this topic with the class tutor.
Type of skills that we are going to work in class:
- Perceptive (ear-training): Recognizing and discriminating sounds, using intonation patterns, variations in stress…
- Language Skills: Identifying individual words and groups, discourse markers,relations within sentences and parts of the text.
- Comprehension Skills: using previous knowledge: interpreting messages, extracting relevant points 


LESSON PLAN WITH EDPUZZLE
Stage 1 activate knowledge: look at the flashcards to work the vocabulary. What is it? It’s a house. Ask students to look at the house, then we try to memorise the vocabulary words.
Stage 2: we present rooms in the house: We work on edpuzzle to adapt the video and check meaning and pronunciation. 
Stage 3: we present objects in the house through the video that we have adapted.
Stage 4: we practice the vocabulary with the video and the comprehension questions, the video help us to carry out the processes involved in listening.
Stage 5: we produce a poster in which the vocabulary of the house is represented considering the video and all the comprehension questions.
Stage 6: post listening activity doing a little and short role-play to work on listening and speaking.

Last but not least, I would like to remark that during the teaching and learning process we have had the opportunity to enjoy a motivating tool to work with a video that has been adapted to the level of the students. They love working with authentic topics and participate with role-plays, dialogues...

Next time I will use Edpuzzle to work the family members. My students really enjoyed the experience.