Getting visual and personal? Tedtalk one- pager

I know for a fact you all love Ted talks and use them in class, to practise listening, get students to learn new vocab, spark discussions.....The problem is the wonderfully creative and personal speeches often become just yet another predictable handout story, with activities to do and check in class. How to break this mould and get students to really process a Ted talk, its content and language at a very personal level?

Let me introduce Its Majesty the TedTalk One-pager, lo and behold:)

How do we go about the one-pager?

1. Let students choose a tedtalk that they find appealing

(I recommend giving it a topic framework, for example- travelling, migration- anything that you're currently discussing)

2. Students watch it at their leisure and then complete the one-pager with:

-the title, speaker, star rating

- two most important quotes

- their response to the talk /takeaways

- vocab to go (a few items that stuck) or the most important topics

- questions to ask the speaker

- or anything else for that matter that you decide to encourage them to concentrate on and write down.

(ss can print the template out and draw on it, then take a picture or complete it digitally, or draw a one-pager form scratch- does not really matter)

The appeal of the one-pager is that an ideal one should be as much visual as possible with sketches, doodles, drawings, icons etc so that ideas are illustrated rather than verbally expressed in a linear order. This way it is very personal, unique and lends itself perfectly to being the springboard for presentation in class..

3. Encourage students to present their one-pagers in class 'to decipher' them, justify choice of elements and encourage others to watch the talk they are talking about- 3-5 minutes seems to be a good time frame here.

4. Grab a coffee and celebrate the student autonomy, creativity and passion!

Enjoy!

TedTalk one-pager

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