4.2: Assignment: Guided Video Tour
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Guided Video Tours
For this project you will create a guided video tour. This project will allow you to show your ability to analyze and create a video in a new genre. You will practice speaking English on the theme we have studied for several weeks. You will be able to use the grammar and vocabulary you learned in this module, and show your new skills with the technology. Finally, this project will allow you to see your classmates on video, enjoy each other's work, and practice listening to each other in English.
Assignment: Choose a place you would like to show your instructor and classmates. It could be your home, your garden, your street, the college campus, your child's school, or a nearby park or shopping center. You can even use a map and photos to present this video from your home. Write a guided video tour of that place. Your tone should be friendly, informal and positive. Use descriptive adjectives to tell us about your place. You should present at least ten sentences describing and explaining your place.
Time: 3-5 minutes
Audience: Your instructor and classmates
Purpose: You may decide. You can inform, entertain, or persuade your audience to visit.
A rubric is attached to help you understand how your project will be graded.
Watch the two guided tour videos below for examples of the genre.
Ken Kramer's California Tower
Check your understanding.
Answer the questions about Ken Kramer's California Tower.
A. What is the purpose of the video "The California Tower, Balboa Park?"
- To inform and entertain the viewer by showing the inside of the California Tower.
- To persuade the viewer to visit the California Tower.
- To persuade the viewer to donate money to the California Tower.
- To educate the viewer about the history of the California Tower.
B. Who is the audience for the video, "The California Tower, Balboa Park?"
- School children preparing for a visit to the tower.
- Tourists considering a visit to the tower.
- Students writing a research paper about Balboa Park.
- San Diego residents who want to learn fun facts about their city.
C. What is the main idea of the video "The California Tower, Balboa Park?"
- There are too many birds in the California Tower.
- The California tower is a good place for tourists to visit.
- San Diego has some memorable sights, including the California Tower.
- We should spend more tax money to improve the California Tower.
From the video, list at least three positive facts about the California Tower. They can be pieces of information that Ken Kramer talks about, or information that you learned from the images only.
The video also shows some negative information about the tower. List at least one piece of information that is negative.
Answers to question above: A-1, B-4, C-3
Check your understanding.
Answer the questions about San Diego State University American Language Institute.
A. What is the purpose of the video "The American Language Institute at SDSU"?
- To entertain San Diego residents.
- To persuade international students to attend the American Language Institute.
- To inform students about the services at the American Language Institute.
- To persuade parents to visit their children at the American Language Institute.
B. Who is the audience for the video "The American Language Institute at SDSU"?
- International students
- San Diego residents
- Elementary school students in San Diego
- San Diego State University professors
C. Who is the narrator for this video?
- a San Diego resident
- a news reporter
- a San Diego State University student
- a San Diego State University professor
D. What is the main idea of this video?
- San Diego State University ALI is a wonderful place to attend school.
- SDSU ALI has good professors.
- SDSU ALI has good technology.
- ALI Students can use the gym at SDSU.
After watching this video, would you want to attend SDSU American Language Institute? Why or why not?
Answers to question above: A-2, B-1, C-3, D-1
How Well Do You Understand the Assignment?
Sometimes the best way to understand an assignment is to look at examples of the kind of work you will be expected to create. You have watched two examples of video guided tours similar to the videos you should make for your end-of-unit project. Can you guess the answers to these questions based on the video examples?
True or false?
- You should narrate your video. (This means you should speak while showing images)
- You must memorize your narration.
- The narration should be a list of words, not sentences.
- The video should be about ten minutes long.
- The video should persuade the viewer to visit.
- The video must be about your garden.
- The video must be about an important place in your city.
- You should show yourself in the video.
- The video camera should stay in one place.
- You need to buy a high quality, expensive video camera for this assignment.
- The video should show mostly positive information.
- You should not make any mistakes when you are speaking.
- The video can talk about history.
- You should leave some time to get help if you have trouble with the video technology.
- You should plan what you are going to say and practice beforehand.
- Your tone in this video should be very formal.
Answers
- T This is a writing and speaking assignment, so you must speak on the video.
- F Do not memorize word for word, but you should practice and make some notes to help you remember what you want to say.
- F The narration should be sentences.
- F The video should be 3 to 5 minutes long.
- F It may persuade your viewer to visit, or it may have another purpose.
- F It may be about your garden, but you may give a tour of another place, too.
- F It may be about a place such as your home, your street, or your favorite shopping mall.
- T At least a short time must be spent in front of the camera.
- F The camera should move, so you can show different things in your tour.
- F You can use your phone or tablet, or borrow one from a friend.
- T Yes. This is a tour of a place you like.
- F It's OK to make mistakes. You should practice and prepare first, though.
- T The video may have historical facts.
- T YES! Start your project early, so you will have time to get help if the technology fails.
- T YES! Plan and prepare first. You might need to record yourself several times before you are happy with the project.
- F The tone should be friendly and informal.