EdPuzzle & Harry Potter

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Hi students!

Today we'll work with a video from the Harry Potter series. You will watch the video and try to answer the questions that appear after every pause.

I chose this video because the Harry Potter saga has got a lot of followers of all ages. The language pace is slow and the quality of the pronunciation is outstanding.

I've tried to come up with a variety of questions that have to do with:

  • Pronunciation
  • Reading
  • Guessing from context

As pre-task, the class gave their opinion about Harry Potter and extra questions were thrown about magic, snakes and museums.

During the activity, the video was played and students answered the given questions accordingly.

    I didn't particularly use a flipping focus of the activity, but rather the students discussed the video and gave their opinion about it: Whether they liked it or not, if they chose Harry's or the other boy's side, if they like snakes, their opinion about museums...

    Due to a matter of time, I would have liked to flip the class and make students be more in charge of the activity, which I will do next time. Nonetheless they were rather independent as to how they led the discussion about the topics of the video.

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