The Milky Way

serene

December 12, 2016

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HELPING LEARNERS USE CHUNKS COMMUNICATIVELY

In this video we talk about how we can help our students use chunks communicatively - we share 4 ideas that have worked well for us in the classroom. We’re using an interactive video quiz in one of our ideas, which you can find here.

Enjoy!

Anna Csíky

iSLCollective teacher trainer

Task description & scene summary

Task description:

The Milky Way is our home galaxy. It can be seen in the sky if the night is dark enough, a cloudy white stripe of stars too far to be seen individually with the naked eye. Our Solar System is only a small piece of the enormous galaxy in which we live! The students listen and fill in the missing words or choose the correct option.

Scene summary:

Video source: The Milky Way for Children, Galaxies and Space: Astronomy for Kids - FreeSchool

Video length: 5 minutes 8 seconds

Video genre: Edu or explainer video (e.g. TedEd, TED conference, home-made explainer)

Lesson type: Deep listening comprehension - Meaning check ("Do you understand what it means?")

Level:

Student types:

Copyright license: iSLCollective Copyright License

First published: 2016-12-12, 22:43:23 (GMT+1)

About the author

serene

Hi! I'm a state school teacher and I teach intermediate - upper intermediate students aged 16-18. I'm also a member of ESLprintables, and I keep my own EFL blog as well at http://areti-aroundtheworldinenglish.blogspot.com/

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

Fill the gap: A galaxy is a ________________________ of stars, gas, dust, and other material.

Fill the gap: Our ________________________ is held together by the sun's gravity.

3) The Milky Way has at least ...... stars in it.

100 billion
200 billion
200 million

Fill the gap: The Milky Way is part of a collection of other galaxies called the ________________________

Fill the gap: Galaxies may be elliptical, ________________________ or irregular in shape.

Fill the gap: In the center of our galaxy is the 'bulge' or ________________________ center.

Fill the gap: Scientists believe that at the very center of the Milky Way is a giant ________________________

Fill the gap: The spiral arms make the galaxy look a little like a ________________________

9) Which part of the Milky Way is the least crowded?

the galactic center
the disk
the halo

10) Who proved that our galaxy was made of far away stars that were close together?

the astronomer Galileo Galilei
Ancient Greek philosophers

About the author

serene

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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yanaet12

2016-12-14 16:01:17

Thanks

bowierebel

2016-12-14 16:15:23

Thanks

Gabriellejulian1

2017-01-06 13:06:35

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haidenhtc1

2017-03-31 13:41:54

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haidenhtc1

2017-03-31 13:42:22

It's wonderful and beautiful. Thanks

spiska

2018-04-26 17:31:00

Great job!

FayeYI

2018-06-23 05:43:43

Thank you

Etyler3

2019-05-24 13:14:23

Awesome!

Molihua75

2021-03-18 15:20:43

It is very well done and my students very much liked it. Thank you ; )

yassam

2022-01-03 05:40:28

amazing job, thanks a lot for saving the day:)