Preparing Your FiA  Lessons General suggestions for presenting the video in class NOTE: Information for Lessons 2-26 (Part One of the Program) only are available at this time. You can expect to see information for Lessons 27-52 in the near future.

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In this section, we aim to provide a great number of suggestions for teaching the teleplay (TLP) section of the video. You can choose from these suggestions according to the level of your students, the time available, and your objectives. Of course, it is not necessary to do them all.

In general, we recommend interrupting the video as often as necessary to check on and help with comprehension, but, just as importantly, to get the students involved in the development of the story by inviting them to

• anticipate what will happen next;
• anticipate what the characters will say or do;
• discuss what has just happened.

You may also wish to interrupt the video to call attention to a new point of grammar or review grammar or vocabulary in the context provided by the story.

A transcript of the teleplay for each lesson is provided in the middle column.  Suggestions are to be found in the right hand column. In the body of this text, you will see the following abbreviations, which identify the nature of the proposed interruption points, followed by the suggestions:

ANT	means Anticipation	DISC	means Discussion
GRAM	means Grammar	PRON	means Pronunciation
REV	means Review	EXPL	means Explanation
RLP	means Role Playing	PDG	means Pedagogical Section of Video

Note on PDG:
The suggestion is to access the segment of the PDG where the term at hand is explained. This is easy to do when using the laserdisks: using the Search function of the laserdisk drive, go to the frame number indicated, play as much of the explanation as you see fit, then go back to the TLP ( teleplay) frame number indicated (which is the point where you left).

The same thing can be done with videocassettes but then you will have to search for the appropriate point on the tape, using the counter and the number of minutes and seconds indicated right after the laserdisk frame number.The timing starts with the first word of the summary of the lesson in English.