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TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages. Ideas free to stream and download.
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The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less).
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1. “4 Reasons to Learn a New Language” by John McWhorter
English is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world. Why bother learning another language if most people can communicate using just this one? Plus, instant translation technology could soon render language learning obsolete! To dispute these ideas, McWorter talks about how languages not only give us insights into their respective cultures, but also shape the way we think. Activities: Discuss —Why are you learning English? A short, five-minute discussion of the question gives a s...
2. “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” by Emily Esfahani Smith
A lot of people say that happiness is the meaning of life, but is that really true? In this video, the speaker argues that we should build more meaningful lives, instead of just happy ones. Activities: Discuss – What’s the meaning of life? Introduce the topic by presenting this question and asking your students to give a one-word answer. Rank – What’s important to you in life? Whether it’s money, family, happiness, travel or food, your students will have different ideas about what’s important...
3. “Why Do We Sleep?” by Russell Foster
This video uses excellent visual aids to turn what seems like an arbitrary question into a fascinating subject. This also makes it much easier to understand, giving students something to support their listening. Activities: Brainstorm – The purpose of sleep Start your lesson off by asking your students what they think the purpose of sleep is. After watching the video, they can see if this matches up with what they’ve learned. Grammar – How long? / How many? / How far? This is a good opportuni...
15. “Why I Keep Speaking Up, Even When People Mock My Accent” by Safwat Saleem
If you want to speak a language well, you need to practice speaking it. But very often, English learners have an accent which is very different from the native speakers. This can be embarrassing for the learners and possibly lead to a decline in practice. Stuck in a circle of perceived shame, a large number of learners are never able to become fluent English speakers. But why is it shameful if someone speaks with a different accent? Safwat Saleem, a Pakistani-American, asks this precise quest...
16. “TED’s Secret to Great Public Speaking” by Chris Anderson
People generally think that to be a good public speaker, you need a good voice, theatrical gestures, emotional stories about childhood and perhaps attractive looks. Chris Anderson, a curator of TED Talks for 15 years, thinks otherwise. According to him, the main component of a public speech is the idea you want to share with the audience you are speaking to. An impressive speech builds one main idea in your head, piece by piece, through words and images. And most importantly, your ideas shoul...
17. “Let’s Teach for Mastery — Not Test Scores” by Sal Khan
Everyone who has attended school agrees on one thing—that it needs to change. In the name of education, students are put through a process which is not only unpleasant, but perhaps even harmful for learning. Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, locates the problem in the basic structure of schooling. He asks us to imagine a house. If the foundation of that building is not perfect but only satisfactory, then that building will surely break down some day. Similarly, if the basic skills of som...
Practice listening
A TED Talk can be a great ESL listening tool for young students and adult students alike. You have thousands of diverse videos to choose from, so you can find videos that work for all age levels, English skill levels, interests and classroom themes. You can play them with or without subtitles—since TED Talks most often have precise subtitles to accompany them—or even print-outs of their full transcripts from the official TED website.
Use subtitles wisely
Every video on the TED Talk website comes with subtitles in several languages. While it’s okay to use these subtitles—especially when they’re in English!—they shouldn’t be relied upon. A good tip is to play the video once without subtitles and check how much they understood, then allow them to watch it again withsubtitles to see what else they can pick up.
Encourage understanding of the gist, not every word
It’s best to preface any listening activity by telling your students not to worry about understanding every single word they hear. Instead, encourage them to understand the gistby combining what they can understand with context.
Browse TED topics from A to Z. A. Activism. Addiction. Africa.
- Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent | Safwat Saleem. Si quieres hablar bien un idioma, tienes que practicar el habla, pero muchas veces lo hablamos con un acento muy diferente al de los hablantes nativos.
- TED’s secret to great public speaking | Chris Anderson. Se suele creer que para ser buen orador necesitas tener buena voz, exagerar los gestos, tener historias emocionantes que contar de la infancia y quizá ser atractivo.
- Let’s teach for mastery, not test scores | Sal Khan. Sal Khan, fundador de Khan Academy, localiza el problema del aprendizaje en la escuela. Si las habilidades básicas de algunas asignaturas como matemáticas o inglés solo se entienden a la mitad, entonces el aprendizaje de los estudiantes se acabará viniendo abajo.
- The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker’s Comma Queen | Mary Norris. Mary Noris es correctora de una de las mejores revistas literarias del mundo: The New Yorker.
The surprising secret to speaking with confidence | Caroline Goyder | TEDxBrixton. TEDx Talks. •. 10M views • 9 years ago. •.
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