I 'practice' in its broad sense of the practice of a of skills. This looks at examples of different types of skills practice suggested for video materials.

(a) Use of prompts

Several video workbooks for students still pictures taken from the video . They are sometimes used for previewing activity, or they can be used as recall for language study and practice as they are in the '' of Family Affair (see Video Plan 7) and in the example in Video Plan 9.

If you don't have still pictures for the video materials you are using, you could still these ideas by using freeze frame on the video itself. With videodisc it is possible to the frame and speedily so that a set of stills on the screen could very easily be used.

Video Plan 10 gives two further ideas for which the of the as it is played.

(b)

This activity is suggested with several sets of material and at different stages in the video-based lesson. In Video Plan 6 we saw introduced after silent viewing and before students listened to the dialogue. It was suggested again as a recap of the video .You can also stop the at a point in a story and ask your students to devise their own ending to it. Several teacher's books suggest a real move away from the situation portrayed on the video to other, situations.

(c) Video drills

Some video materials have a practice stage built into each unit. The course Its Your Turn To Speak uses laboratory drill , with gaps left for the student to supply parts of the dialogue. The camera leads the viewer into the scene and a appears on the screen as a prompt for the viewer to speak. Lets Watch includes video exercises which are to audio-cued drills. The Follow Me guide suggests the use of a VCR to the use we sometimes make of audiocassette players in the classroom: the 'listen and repeat' of pausing the machine after each utterance for students to repeat it. This is simply using your control of the machine and could be applied to any video material.

(d) Comprehension exercises

Comprehension is when we look at video and so the for developing and checking comprehension with audio or print are equally for video. The examples we have seen include multiple choice and true/false questions, gap-filling , re-ordering jumbled sentences, filling in information on worksheets. All of them treat the video simply as another form of and are familiar exercise types. This is a useful reminder that video is just another at your . Even if you are new to it, you probably already have a of ideas for language work which could perfectly well apply to video.