Rosalia's interview with Jimmy Fallon

 Hello my people,

Today I want to tell you about my experience using Edpuzzle in the classroom to promote my students' listening skills. First of all, I planned my lesson to achieve 4 main objectives, which I am going to explain in detail below:

1. Use authentic materials: given the lack of time, I usually use materials specifically design for English learners. However, this time, I decided to use an authentic material, audiovisual because it helps my students, and an interview, mainly due to the fact that we have already practised this type of oral text in previous units. 

2. Plan pre, during and post tasks: I wanted to achieve a main objective, make my students understand that you don't have to speak perfect in order to speak. They are usually shy or nervous when they have to speak in English, because they care too much about their accent or they don't want to make mistakes. By preparing this lesson, I really planned to teach them that the most important part of speaking a language is being able to send a message. If you can interact with people and you can transmit meaning, perfect grammar or fluency is not that essential. For this reason, I chose a Spanish speaker, Rosalía. 

- As a pre-task, we used half of a lesson to present the Jimmy Fallon show, speak about this programme and the type of video they should expect. Then, I planned a flipped classroom and they had to watch the interview at home. 

- During the watching, they had to write down any word that was difficult for Rosalia or Jimmy to pronounce (either in Spanish or in English) and any mistake they made regarding grammar or pronunciation. 

- Afterwards, we watched the video in classroom (in case anyone had forgotten) and we made a debate with the following questions: Do you think Rosalia can speak English? Has she made any mistakes? Why do you think Spanish speakers are so afraid to speak in English? Which were the main topics of the conversation? Are phones a distraction in our daily lives? They had 5 minutes to make some notes and then we all shared our opinions.

3. Make the experience significative and interactive: I tried to combine receptive and productive skills, so ending these sessions with a debate seemed a magnificent idea. Students were really motivated because they knew Rosalia and they have all felt afraid to speak in English, make mistakes or knowing how to pronounce the words many times during their lifetime. 

4. Give my students a greater degree of autonomy: flipped classroom turned out to be a great solution to attend to my students' diversity. They could watch the video at home as many times as they wanted and even use the subtitles if they needed extra help. They felt more confident during the debate because they had actually understood the video. 

I chose this video because my students know and like Rosalia but, above all, because they could empathise with her, being a Spanish speaker speaking in English and see how amanzingly well she was doing. The key advantages of these lessons were the motivation and interest my students showed due to the use of authentic materials. 

Next time, I will give them the questions of the debate before the lesson, so they can make notes at home as well. Some students still felt insecure and required more time to prepare their answers. Improvising can be a long-term challenge, but being the first times I should have anticipated this problem and give them the extra help of showing the questions of the debate beforehand.

Finally, I will include here the link of the video I edited with Edpuzzle in case you want to use it with your students as well. Rosalia's interview

See you soon!

Carmen

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