Creating a vocabulary teaching video for a flipped EFL classroom

 A fun Vocabulary video

Hi dear readers! We had a fun vocabulary video for Grade 5 students, and I want to share our experience with you. Are you ready?

The flipped approach means that students learn a new topic at home first, usually by watching a short video, and then they practice the topic in class by doing activities, asking questions, and working with their friends. Students learn the basic ideas at home, so the teacher doesn’t need to spend too much time explaining in class. This helps teachers create more active lessons.

Flipped classroom approach also has several advantages for language classes. students can rewatch the videos whenever they want, they get more exposure to English outside the classroom, and teachers have more time for speaking and interaction activities. However, there are also some disadvantages. Some students may not complete the pre-class work, which makes the in-class activities less effective. In addition, some students may experience internet problems at home, so watching the videos might be difficult. Also, teachers can have difficulty making flipped teaching videos, because it takes a lot of time. We experienced this too.

For this assignment, we focused on Unit 9: Animal Shelter from the Grade 5 MEB coursebook. We taught vocabulary items such as cow, duck, parrot, snake, lion, wolf, cat, dog, horse, bee, and monkey.

We created our video using Powtoon. During the process, we worked collaboratively, but we also faced challenges. We created a shared Powtoon file, but due to my internet connection problem, I could not access the project for a while. Because of this, the group divided responsibilities. The members who had access to Powtoon edited the video, while those who couldn’t access searched for animal pictures, GIFs, sound effects.

Thank you:)

 My group friends are: Aslı Özyıldırım, Beyza Zabun and Meryem Hilal Yıldırım

You can watch our vocabulary video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc7Q5eKNWUM

You can see our ASSURE lesson plan here:

https://marmaraedutr-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/hilalyildirim23_marun_edu_tr/IQD-mQFRotlyRaw48HvMCwG4AWM-jpy05wCsFALxy75rdDE?e=nQG0AY

The link of the tool we used:

https://www.powtoon.com/

For the second draft, we added the narration and some pictures, and made small edits to improve the video. We also completed the missing parts of the ASSURE lesson plan, decided on the in-class activities, and added the quiz link at the end of the video.