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Creating a Grammar Teaching Video

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  Hi guys how are youu? I hope you're doing well! This week's task was creating a grammar teaching video for a flipped EFL classroom and I'm happy to share this assignment with you! I've already talked about flipped class in my previous post so if you're curious you can check it out.  Learning grammar can be very boring and hard in a class because students are usually not involved in it. A grammar teaching video is beneficial for an EFL class because it is a very fast and effective way of learning grammar. Students can learn easily and the teacher can involve them in class by giving activites about the video after they watch it. We created this task together with my friends  Rabia  and  Oğuz . We first needed to decide on the topic, so we looked into the workbook and all of us agreed to "past continuous tense" as we all thought it was the most convenient subject for us. Then we prepared the text, Rabia and I did the voiceovers. After that, we prepared a w...

Creating a Flipped Vocabulary Teaching Video

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  Hi everyone!  Welcome back to my blog! This week we created a flipped vocabulary teaching video with my friends  Rabia  and  Oğuz . Flipped language teaching is basically an approach that makes the students active in learning. A flipped vocabulary teaching video is very beneficial to young EFL learners as it is a visual, short and captivating form of teaching vocabulary. Young learners would easily understand the meaning of the words through the video. We first decided on the subject, it wasn't hard because we all thought the "daily routine" would be best. After that Rabia and I wrote the script of the video and did the voiceovers, Oğuz made the animation and we prepared the quiz all together. Writing a script wasn't that hard we did it easily. The hardest part for me was doing the voiceover because I was concerned if my voice sounded good or not (I don't like listening to my own voice lol) but it turned out ok I guess :) Another frustrating part was, the tool...