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The Big Challenge Academy's multimedia series immerse your students in short and captivating episodes to reinforce their listening comprehension in a fun way. Interactive quizzes and real-time tracking guarantee motivation, autonomy, and alignment with school curricula.
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Introduction: Daily Oral Immersion
The multimedia series from The Big Challenge Academy offer a unique opportunity to immerse your students in the English language in an authentic and regular way. Designed to develop listening comprehension, these series offer short and captivating episodes, accompanied by interactive quizzes.
Integrating daily or weekly listening of these podcasts means offering your students direct contact with the spoken language, varied accents, and cultural themes of the English-speaking world.
🎧 The objective: To make listening comprehension accessible, motivating, and directly linked to the school curriculum.
Why integrate multimedia series into your classes?
Multimedia series are much more than a simple gadget. They are a real pedagogical tool to:
🎙️ Develop student autonomy: They learn to focus on listening and to extract key information from an audio document.
🌍 Open up to English-speaking culture: The topics covered are varied and allow for the discovery of different aspects of life and culture in English-speaking countries.
👂 Improve auditory discrimination: Regular exposure to authentic accents helps to train the ear.
✅ Prepare for assessments: It's excellent practice for the listening comprehension tests of the Brevet or other certifications.
💡 Stimulate curiosity and the desire to learn: Short formats and engaging topics to maintain interest.
Short episodes, maximum impact!
Each episode lasts between 4 and 6 minutes, an ideal format for attentive listening in class or at home, without the risk of disengagement.
How to use multimedia series in class?
The integration of multimedia series is flexible and adapts to your teaching organization:
Easy assignment: Select episodes based on your students' level (A1 to B1) and the themes you wish to cover.
Listening in class or at home: Propose a collective listening session in class to guide comprehension, or assign the episodes as homework for autonomous work.
Interactive quiz: Each episode is accompanied by a quiz to check global and detailed comprehension. Students get immediate feedback.
Tracking results: From your dashboard, view your students' scores, identify points of difficulty, and adapt your future activities.
Pedagogical use: Use the multimedia series as a starting point for discussions, debates, speaking or writing activities, or to introduce a new vocabulary or grammar point.
💬 Activity idea: After listening, ask students to summarize the episode or give their opinion.
What content for the multimedia series?
The multimedia series from The Big Challenge Academy are designed to be both educational and entertaining:
Varied and motivating themes:
Daily life of English-speaking teenagers
Culture and traditions of English-speaking countries (USA, UK, Australia, etc.)
Significant historical facts
Scientific discoveries and innovations
Adventures and captivating stories
Current topics adapted for young people
Alignment with the school curriculum: The content is linked to the cultural themes and learning objectives of middle school.
Progressive difficulty levels: Episodes adapted to A1, A2, and B1 levels of the CEFR.
Scripts available: For some episodes, scripts may be accessible for more in-depth work on vocabulary or pronunciation (to be checked on the platform).
New episodes regularly: The multimedia series library is constantly growing to offer ever more choice.
Pedagogical Advantages of Multimedia Series
The regular use of multimedia series has many advantages for learning English:
Reinforcement of listening comprehension: This is the primary objective, to work on active listening and the ability to understand native speakers.
Lexical and cultural enrichment: Students discover new words, expressions, and cultural aspects in context.
Improvement of pronunciation and intonation: Listening to authentic models helps develop better oral fluency.
Development of concentration: Students learn to maintain their attention on an audio document.
Increased motivation: The podcast format is modern and appreciated by young people, making learning more engaging.
Effective exam preparation: Regular practice is the key to succeeding in listening comprehension tests.
✨ The little extra: The multimedia series can also be an excellent support for interdisciplinary projects (English/History, English/Science, etc.).
Conclusion: A valuable tool for listening comprehension
The multimedia series from The Big Challenge Academy are a valuable pedagogical resource for all English teachers wishing to improve their students' listening comprehension skills in a dynamic and motivating way.
Easy to integrate into your lessons, they offer rich and varied content, aligned with the curriculum, and allow for effective progress tracking. Don't wait any longer to take your students on a journey to the heart of the English-speaking world through listening!
🎶 Immerse your classes in authentic English! Discover the multimedia series on The Big Challenge Academy now.