ESL teaching is great for most English teachers!
And one of the great things about it is that you can use almost anything from real-life.
Even what you watch on TV!
Learners just have to be a bit more active and this can be extremely exciting for both you as a teacher and the student.
However, I would like to provide you with the reasons besides the resources, of course.
Then why is teaching English with TV series an excellent idea?
Many people love series SUITS, for example.
I also think it provides a wide range of idioms, expressions, phrases and phrasal verbs which are worth using in ESL.
Besides this, it shows a business background that may be useful for Adult English Learners.
Have a look at the following language examples.
Language References From SUITS:
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Aren’t they great real-life language references that may add some interest to your ESL lessons?
Many students say they don’t do their homework because they don’t have time. However, many end their day spending hours watching online TV series!
So why shouldn’t teachers use these TV series to teach English?
Finally, here are some of the reasons why TV series are so interesting when learning a foreign language.
14 Reasons Why You Should Use TV Series In ESL, TV Series…
- show your students real-life references
2. make your ESL activities more exciting, contributing to more lively lessons
3. keep your students more motivated and interested
4. are a helpful pronunciation input as most learners watch their favourite series in its original version without dubbing
developing speaking skills gets easier with TV series
5. develop speaking and listening skills while entertaining students
6. are easy to integrate into the theme of any existing lesson due to a great number of video clips available online
7. are great warm-ups for any ESL lesson
8. are useful to develop speaking skills when asking things like these – Can you describe the picture? / What are the people doing? / Why do you think they are doing that? / What do you think will happen next? / What would you do? For more questions check out Number 1 Way To Introduce English Vocabulary
9. provide a good chance for your students to put the language into practice, with roleplaying, for instance, turning language learning more natural
10. give students the chance to put grammar structures into practice
11. help your students to have a better understanding of a culture or lifestyle
authentic human interaction can be seen with TV series
12. allow your students to learn how people casually talk and interact with one another (at work, among friends, etc) as they show authentic human interaction
13. show real informal language such as slang and idioms commonly used between friends
14. show this interaction in context, helping students to talk about more topics – so they are excellent to teach new vocabulary
I hope you liked all these quotes taken from SUITS, Season 1, Episode 1.
Imagine what you can do with all the other episodes!
You will find the full scripts of all seasons and episodes in subslikescript.com. There you can find scripts from more series and movies too!
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