Good Presentations in Different Contexts

What is it about?

It is a great website that offers a variety of videos about different topics such as technology, education, environment. These videos presented in English with subtitles by people from different countries.

Why is the content good for language learning?
It provides examples of how students can make good presentations.
Students can learn a range of different words in different contents.
The materials in this website are provided in a high quality that inspires and motivates students.
Using paralinguistic language which represented in involving audio and visual aids that enhance students' understanding of the context and the language used.
Providing subtitles that help students to understand the meaning.

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

I will take the above video which presented by BIRKEBEAHR on our food system as an example.
If the lesson is about healthy diet and genetic motivated food, the teacher can group students into pairs and ask them to discuss what they know about this topic. Then he can ask the whole class to discuss about what is the GMF and what its positives and negatives are. What they think about healthy diet. After that students watch the videos and write comments. Then they discuss in groups what they learned from the video and evaluate their diet,whether it is healthy or not.

Limitations

Teachers have to spend a long time to look for which video can serve the aim of the lesson.
It can just work with advanced learners and I think it will be hard for lower level learners.