How to prepare a chosen episode in 10 minutes?
Why I needed to record and trim the video for an English lesson?
Once a student said to me that he wanted to learn English with some other content, not using his college Students’ Book. I could not withstand the temptation to create something new rather than to use existing lessons and exercises. I chose a short video for an English lesson from the BBC Reel about charging electrical vehicles on the go, transcribed the text of the video for reading in Word, and prepared easy general questions for each passage.
It was one of the first lessons and it lasted 40 minutes. However, this time was not enough to study the whole story, though the video itself was only 5 minutes long. The student did not read the transcription quickly and could hardly translate it within the allotted time. A part of the educational material should be given to him as a home task.
How I spent 10 minutes and used free tools for editing the video ?
As a result, I asked the student to watch only the first part of the video and to read the first part of the text at home. As I wanted him to concentrate on the familiar passage, I needed some means to separate it and put off other content for further lessons. I did find the programs for this purpose. First, I recorded the BBC Reel video using the program OBS Studio. Then I cut off the necessary part of it with the help of the video editor CapCut. Watch how I did these manipulations.
I emailed the separate video and the transcribed text to the student. He prepared his reading for the next lesson without any problems. The video was not long and hard for him to watch. As for unfamiliar words from the text – he could translate and voice the pronunciation of them on translate.google.com. As this experience was successful, I prepared for the next lesson the second part of the video in the same way.
Try it! It did not take much time and you could calmly think about other tasks to improve the student’s English.
Good luck and drink 5 o’clock tea hot!
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