TED is the website that devotes Ideas Worth Spreading. It provides large a large amount of famous speech in different fields around the world. There are lots of brilliant ideas and genius thoughts can be discovered when you watch TED. choose the field you are interested in, search a topic or a key word and you will find hundreds and thousands genius people talking about their fantastic ideas.
Value:
- The speech is in English and in different fields so that the students have chances to learn vocabularies and expressions in different areas. For instance, students in computer science can enlarge the vocabularies in CS which possibly improve their further studies in the subject, esp. when they need to read their core books in English.
- students can download the speech in audio or video format so as to achieve mobile learning.
- If the students are advanced learner, possible he or she can challenge to be a translator in TED.
- Great listening materials
Usage:
- Great listening materials, esp. for students studying English for Specific purpose.
- Brainstorming your ideas through listening to others
- warming-up activity
- Understand different English accents because speakers are from different countries.
- To study the foreign cultures. (see example below )
Limitation:
- For upper-intermediate or advanced learners.
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