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Here is a TED Talk ESL activity that will help improve students listening skills and get them talking about interesting topics in the classroom.
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- TED Talk ESL Activity Preparation:
- TED Talk ESL Activity Guidelines:
- Follow-Up ESL Activities:
- English Listening Practice 1: Hope for Personal Change
- Practice 2: Education: Taking Risks for a Better Future
- Practice 3: Hope from Not Giving Up
- More Hopeful A2 TED Talks for English Listening Practice
Student Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Age Group: Adults
TED Talk ESL Activity Preparation:
First, find a TED Talk topic related to your lesson by doing a search on TED. You can use their search filters on the website to find an appropriate topic and duration for the video.
TED Talk ESL Activity Guidelines:
After selecting a video for the class, you may want to pre-teach some vocabulary from the talk and familiarize the students with any difficult words.
The TED website is especially useful since many of the videos have transcripts that you can use to select the vocabulary that needs extra explanation.
In addition, you may also want to print off the transcripts that they provide and use them as follow-up activities. The content is so versatile for improving listening, speaking, reading, writing and other skills.
Introduce the video. Do some pre-discussion about the video’s topic.
Then, have the students discuss in groups and lead feedback. Encourage them to talk about their opinions in detail and have them think critically about the topic before watching the video.
Next, tell the students to pay attention to the video and to be prepared to answer a few questions related to some general points that the speaker is going to make. They can take notes if they wish.
Play the first few minutes of the video. Write some questions down on some paper as you watch. You can prepare the questions beforehand if you wish, but it isn’t necessary since it may help to model the task to demonstrate to the students what they will be doing in the next stages.
Stop the video after about 2 minutes. Write the questions that you created on the board or simply ask the students directly. They can discuss the questions in groups or pairs then lead feedback.
After the first round of questions and answers, tell the students that they are going to watch the next few minutes of the video. As they are watching, they should create some questions related to what they have seen or heard on the video.
Un-pause the video and have them create their questions.
Stop the video again. The students can ask their questions in their pairs or groups.
Finally, lead feedback and repeat the tasks again until the video is completed.
Follow-Up ESL Activities:
To wrap up the TED Talk listening activity, have the students discuss the topics covered in the presentation further. They can express their opinions in groups.
If there is enough time remaining in class, they could do a written synopsis of the TED talk and give their opinions about it in writing. To focus on improving students’ writing, try the Five Senses ESL Writing Activity or the News Report ESL Writing Activity.
You could even use the TED Talk transcript in a Jigsaw Reading ESL Activity.
More ESL Listening Activities for Kids and Adults:
View the listening activities archive.
View more ESL activities.
View this activity on ESL Expat’s YouTube Channel: Related ESL Resources Online:
- TED Talk lesson plans on TED4ESL
TED offers great English listening practice, with over 1,000 interesting, clear talks on many subjects. However, most are best for intermediate or advanced English learners.
(See Comprehension Exercises for several pages to practice if you have higher-level English skills.)
This page links to 7 TED talks easy enough for A2 (high beginner) English students. Then there are a few questions to help you focus your listening. You can get extra practice by discussing or writing about your responses.
The first three talks also have brief introductions and some comprehension questions.
(Listen at least twice—more often is O.K. because you will understand more details each time.) The talk will open in a second window so you can go back and forth between talk and questions.
(Click these links to go directly to English Listening Practice 1, Listening Practice 2,
Listening Practice 3 or More A2 TED talks.)
Pause each talk whenever you need to (and later read the transcript, if you like.) The talks are long—10 to 19 minutes—but tell very interesting stories.
Concentrate on understanding the stories and the speaker’s main idea the first time you listen. Check your understanding, and try to answer the questions, the second time around.
If you are interested in the other talks, there are also some questions to think about. You can practice your English writing (or speaking) skills by trying to answer one or two of them.
These talks are all about hope. They tell about people caring for each other, overcoming violence, and helping others reach their full potential. You can start with any of them. (The order doesn’t matter.) Just click the links in the list below.
These questions are also available in pdf form for teachers. See the Beginning Lesson Plans section of ESL Lesson Plans.
English Listening Practice 1: Hope for Personal Change
How do you react to difficulty and failure? Are you willing to work harder with the hope of doing better? Does it help? Can you change that ‘C’ into an ‘A’ if you keep studying?
Did you know that trying something difficult for you can actually make new connections in your brain? In this 11 minute talk, education researcher Carol Dweck illustrates the power of believing that you can improve.
Some people believe that personal abilities can’t change. (They’re “fixed.” A person is either good at something or they’re not, smart or not, and they’ll stay that way.) She shows that people who believe that make very different choices than those who believe they can get better with effort and practice.
After listening for the first time, choose the best answer. (You can just write the right letter on a sheet of paper, to check after the 2nd listening):
1. A ‘growth mindset’ means understanding that
A. we can develop our abilities and intelligence; they are not set forever at a certain level.
B. our abilities can grow a certainf amount but are mostly fixed at birth.
C. our bodies and minds grow until we become adults.
D. we need to grow up and act like responsible adults.
After listening for the second time:
2. In one high school, when students did not pass a test they received a grade of “not yet” instead of ‘F.’ The speaker likes this, because it helps students understand that
A. that test wasn’t really important.
B. it’s O.K. to fail.
C. some people just aren’t good at taking tests.
D. they can keep studying and pass it next time.
3. (Choose all the answers that are true.) Students with a ‘fixed mindset’ were more likely to
A. believe if they failed at something they would never be good at it.
B. believe if they failed at something or made many errors they needed to practice it more.
C. avoid difficult tasks because they feared looking like ‘failures.’
D. look for others who did worse than they did so they could at least feel superior to them.
4. When researchers taught students that learning difficult new things helped them make more connections in their brains, and get smarter over time,
A. students were disappointed they didn’t immediately feel smarter.
B. students decided studying was too much work.
C. students were more willing to keep trying, and their grades went up.
D. students started getting all ‘As.’
Check your answers.
Here’s a bonus question to write about or discuss with someone. Dweck suggests praising children’s effort and improvement rather than their talents or intelligence. She says that’s one way to help them develop a growth mindset. How important do you think this is?
Practice 2: Education: Taking Risks for a Better Future
Have you heard of the Taliban, a rebel group in Afghanistan? What do you know about them? The Taliban do not like many things about western culture. They especially object to education for girls and women.
Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school. 17 min.
Sakena Yacoobi’s father sent her to the U.S. so she could become a doctor and help save lives. After Russia invaded Afghanistan, her family became refugees, and she was able to bring them to safety in the U.S.
However, her heart was still in Afghanistan, and she went back to see what she could do to help. Listen to her story and think about what she decided was the best thing to help her people.
After listening for the first time:
1. While visiting in the refugee camps, what did the speaker decide was the best way she could help in Afghanistan, and why?
A. As a doctor, she could care for maternal and child health and save lives.
B. As a doctor, she could help people who had been wounded during the fighting.
C. By opening schools for girls she could give her people confidence and a way to tư vấn their families and move forward.
D. By opening schools for girls she could distract them from their worries and help them become better wives.
After listening for the second time:
2. Once 19 young men with rifles stopped Sakena Yacoobi’s car. What did they want?
A. They wanted to kill her because she was educating girls.
B. They wanted her to stop educating girls.
C. They wanted her to pay them a lot of money.
D. They wanted her to educate them too.
3. What did she do about it?
A. After they let her go she never went back there again.
B. With the help of donors she started classes for young men too.
C. When she left she called for military help.
D. She gave each of them money to go to school.
4. What has happened to those young men since then?
A. They have attacked other educators.
B. They got educated and have become her supporters and protectors.
C. They have joined the Taliban.
D. They have grown up and started businesses.
Check your answers.
Bonus question: Do you agree with Sakena Yacoobi about the value of education to change people’s attitudes and lives? Explain why or why not, discussing the types of change education can or cannot cause.
Practice 3: Hope from Not Giving Up
What do you know about the International Red Cross? What are some of the services they provide? What services do you think are so important that they need to operate even in a war zone with active fighting?
Alberto Cairo worked for the Red Cross as a physical therapist. He provided prostheses (artificial arms or legs) for Afghans disabled by the war. At first, the factory closed whenever the war got too close. Something changed that. Listen to the story the first time to find out why they changed that policy. What made them decide that keeping their rehabilitation center open was a priority, even in the war zone?
Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men. 19 min. (Pause as often as you need to—especially the second time you listen.)
After listening for the first time:
1. What made the Red Cross decide that helping disabled people was a priority, even when there was fighting nearby?
A. The government started to provide protection to the Red Cross.
B. They got more donations.
C. They saw the risks disabled people were willing to take to get help.
D. They didn’t have any other work to do.
After listening for the second time:
2. What did Mahmoud and other disabled Afghan men ask for? They wanted dignity and
A. a chance to work to tư vấn themselves.
B. better, stronger prostheses.
C. protection from the war.
D. help for their families.
3. Why did the factory making prostheses—artificial limbs—start hiring disabled people whenever possible?
A. They learned that even people with major disabilities could manage to do their jobs well.
B. They didn’t have to pay as much to disabled people.
C. Seeing that other disabled people could work was a source of hope to the people who came to get prostheses.
D. Both A and C.
Check your answers.
Bonus question:
Cairo said he didn’t feel Mahmoud could keep up with the work of making prostheses with only one real arm and no legs. They found that Mahmoud even speeded up production, because he had such a desire to prove that he could work.
Have you ever had an experience in which someone questioned your ability and you worked even harder to prove you could do it? If not, do you know someone else who has proved himself (or herself) in spite of great difficulties?
More Hopeful A2 TED Talks for English Listening Practice
I found each of these talks outstanding. Listen to them, looking for answers to the questions connected with each talk. (These are not easy questions to answer in English, but think about them.) Then listen again to deepen your understanding and build English vocabulary and fluency. (You can also read the transcripts if that helps.)
1. Joseph Kim: The family I lost in North Korea and the family I gained. (Have you ever had to leave people you loved without knowing when you would see them again?) 14 min.
2. Elizabeth Lindsey: Curating humanity’s heritage (What does Lindsey want to preserve? What does she fear will be lost to humanity? What does she mean when she says this planet is our canoe and that we must work together?) 10 min.
3. Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with nonviolence. (Elworthy says it is often more effective to fight bullying and violence with nonviolence. Can you give an example? What skills can help?)* 16 min.
4. 9-11 Healing: the mothers who found forgiveness and friendship. (What brought these mothers together and helped them understand each other in spite of language and cultural differences?) 9.5 min.
* #3 See her example of American bombings of terrorist targets increasing terrorist numbers. Skills include self-understanding, dealing with fear and controlling anger—using it as a fuel.
You can find TED talks for all levels, with English listening practice exercises, at Lingorank. They’re ranked by level and speed.
You can also find many simple (A1-B2 or so) conversations at Randall’s ESL Listening Lab.
For more listening practice (including TED talks) at various levels see also Listening and Reading Comprehension Exercises.
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