Viral Advertising

I use the following videos as supportive videos for SpeakOut unit 5.2, 5A/B, and prior to the speaking exercise on viral adverts.  After we watched each video, the students discuss what it was about and why they think this video went viral.  Finally, I ask them if they had seen any of these videos beforehand and to also think about which video was the most popular.  Then we check the views on YouTube to find out.
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Dove



Evian


Budweiser



Visit and look at the numbers for these adverts

Dove
http://youtu.be/wPG7PcI67dE
Evian
http://youtu.be/pfxB5ut-KTs
Budweiser
http://youtu.be/rrHoDJinMQI

New Inventions

In one lesson in the computer lab, I got my students watching four different TED videos on new inventions and commenting on them - see the full exercise and what they did here:

http://ks-ncm-int.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/inventions.html


The next day we watched:

And I wrote on the board:

How do you feel about this device coming into the market?

Would you like to own one? Why or why not?

And I let the students discuss its implications.