Report on video

The purpose of this report is to outline the main issues that were mentioned by Lewis Lansford during his speech "Anatomy of iceberg: the hidden power of TED talks" who was a participant of annual IATEFL conference aiming at sharing new ideas of teaching English for foreigners. The information below summarizes my impression on his performance.

First of all, I would like to praise the speaker, who was not embarrassed by technical problems and did not lose his face but continued speaking about the topic he prepared. It was clear he is a professional in teaching and his experience is immense, because his examples of how to use TED videos were well-developed and apprehensible for listeners. I am sure his performance would be highly useful for all ESL teachers who are seeking ways of employing this resource during their classes.

For me, this video carries a private interest as I have already pondered over implementing TED videos into my lessons as an additional tool for enhancing listening skills . Therefore, Lansford’s performance has given me food for thoughts about how to do this right as the level of my students are not so high to understand everything. He advised to use some pre-activity based on the content of the video followed to develop critical thinking of the students. For example, to turn on video without the image and make them guess what musical instrument are playing, using grammatical construction appropriate to their level.

At the end of his speech Lansford welcomed all listeners to his course dedicated on how to teach English using TED talks. I guess there more helpful information and more practical piece of advice will be given. His speech was just a tip of the iceberg of the teaching possibilities of TED videos.

I am delighted to inform that I really enjoyed the video and the charisma of speaker itself. One day I think I will take advantage of his course in order to receive deep knowledge on this subject but by this day I  can say I have benefited from his performance fully.

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/anatomy-iceberg-hidden-power-ted-talks