Thursday, February 15, 2007

online stuff for classes

Don't know if any of you have come across and maybe used this already, but browsing the BBC website I came across a Panorama video that I thought was extremely useable. Follow the link below to get to the article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6241815.stm

and from there you can also watch the footage.

Basically the programme was about victims of crimes who refused to just give in, and fought back, generally successfully. It's a pretty short bit of footage, mostly from CCTV, and then there is a quiz they can do about how they would have behaved and whether watching the footage has changed their opinion. There's also a link to a transcript of the programme.
I thought it might be extremely useful for talking about hypothetical situations, especially using 2nd conditional.

Let me know what you think

2 comments:

Unknown said...

This material has now changed and shows the whole programme rather than just the CCTV footage, and no longer has the quiz. I guess because the programme has now gone out. Sorry.
As the video was to watch now rather than to download, I don't think there's anything I could have done about it.

Unknown said...

There is also an archive of Panorama programmes (the whole programme) with transcripts. Very useable