The senses are a big part of how we learn. Sensory imagery is a powerful way to engage students and help them remember the information they've learned. 어린이 화상영어

Use 'feely bags', secret packages, taped sounds and food samples to get students using their senses. Try blindfolding a group and having them identify wrapped food samples by sight, touch and smell.
Sight

Generally, our senses work together to paint a picture of our environment. Think about the last time you went for a walk: as you stroll along, your eyes might take in the beauty of a colorful sunset while you hear the water flowing over rocks and touch a patch of fallen leaves. Engaging all of your senses helps the brain to process information and build and strengthen nerve pathways that promote memory, cognitive functioning, balance (vestibular) and body awareness (proprioception).

Many coping techniques used to help people deal with stress involve one or more of the five senses. For instance, digging into comfort food, distracting yourself with a funny video or watching your favorite television show are all visual ways to relieve stress and tension.

Using all of your senses can be fun for everyone, regardless of age or ability. For instance, children love sensory play, which builds and reinforces sense-related cognitive skills. For example, they often create and name objects based on their color or comparative size. They can also develop visual memories by placing small objects on a tray and then covering them up. Asking kids to name as many objects as they can before the tray is uncovered helps them recognize the order of their senses.
Sound

The human voice plays an important part in video content. The sound of the vocals helps set the tone for a video, whether it is calming and relaxing or suspenseful and action-packed. It is also useful for conveying emotion and helping to keep the viewer engaged.

Adding a soundtrack is a great way to enhance your video’s audio. It can create a sense of urgency, excitement, suspense and even drama. There are many free and paid music libraries available to help you find the right track for your video.

In addition to the musical element, adding audio effects can enhance the visual appeal of a video. These can include anything from background noise to sound effects to vocals. The SFX can help create a more engaging video experience by enhancing the audio and giving it extra texture.

Adding captions and subtitles to videos is another way to engage the sense of hearing. Captions are helpful for people with hearing impairments and they also improve comprehension of videos. Studies have shown that ELLs who view videos with English captions score high on aural word recognition tests as opposed to ELLs who watch the same videos without captions. This is because watching videos with time-synchronized captions reinforces speech with text, which encourages ELLs to match spoken and written words in their language, which ultimately improves vocabulary. In addition, the synchronized captions help ELLs become familiar with the pronunciation and vocabulary used by native speakers of English.
Smell

Olfaction, the sense of smell, is like Rodney Dangerfield: It doesn’t get as much respect as it deserves. However, it is important to stimulate children’s sense of smell through natural play and planned activities at school as well as to teach them the role that this sense plays in their daily lives.

To explore this sense, share the story of Farley Follows His Nose (Lynn Johnston & Beth Cruickshank) or Ferdinand the Bull (Munro Leaf). Ask kids to identify items on a chart that is labelled “good smells,” “questionable odours” and “dangerous odours.” To reinforce how closely our sense of smell and taste are connected, have them try tasting their snack or meal with their noses pinched closed to demonstrate that they can still experience the flavours of their food even though their sense of smell is blocked.

Another great way to engage the sense of smell is by exploring what people can smell when they feel different emotions. For example, the scents of fear or disgust are actually transmitted through sweat, so kids can identify these feelings by smelling their own or friends’ bodies. To test this, divide students into groups. Blindfold one of the groups and have them try to identify a set of food samples that are wrapped in paper. See which group can identify the correct answer with the most accuracy. This will help them to understand the importance of using more than one sense when solving problems.
Taste

Video English offers a wealth of engaging activities to help students discover and explore the connections between different senses. Use 'feely bags', secret packages, taped sounds and taste tests of bitter, sweet, salty and sour-tasting foods to prompt students to consider how each of their senses collect information about the world around them.

To investigate the sense of taste, we analyzed 15 recipes-videos from the popular Facebook community page 'Tastmade'.1 These videos were selected because they were among the most-shared (up to 5,187,577 times) by users at the time of research. This popularity is a strong indicator of the audience's engagement with a recipe video, as well as its virality and potential for dissemination.

All of the videos begin with a shot of an empty kitchen workspace; this is then followed by images of hands handling food ingredients and implements, and preparing the ingredients for cooking. These hand-on-screen sequences can last for up to a minute before culminating in a final shot of a spoon or fork entering the frame and conveying a mouthful of cooked food to an off-screen mouth.

This 'haptic visuality' - the arousal of a tactile feeling for the food on the screen through an image that does not involve actual touch - may contribute to the sensation of interactivity that characterizes these videos. This is particularly so when compared with similar texts in other media, such as written recipes.
Touch

The sense of touch doesn’t have a single proper sensible, but a good video can engage the senses by showing a wide range of demonstrations and insights that cannot easily be conveyed in words, such as simulations of outer space or atomic-level interactions or inner-body processes. These are the types of videos that can help engage a young learner’s concentration and linguistic comprehension capabilities, even if they have a lower visual ability than their reading or listening ability.

Great video marketing campaigns rely on storytelling to capture the attention of consumers. Make sure that your video English content has a narrative-based structure, using a set of tools like setting, conflict, and resolution, to help drive engagement.
Feel

If your students enjoy cooking, practicing the names of ingredients while they prepare a meal can be a fun way to engage their sense of touch and smell. The choice of props, décor and backgrounds for virtual and physical sets can also add sensory dimension. For example, staging a bowl of oranges or a vase of roses can insinuate their distinctive scents. Similarly, using colors in your videos can prompt a variety of feelings in your learners. Green may suggest the scent of grass, yellow might evoke sourness and pink can trigger memories of bubble gum.

What are some other ways you’ve engaged your students’ senses with video English?