I wanted to continue a reward system of playing a 3~5 min. video at the end of each English class at my all-boys high school.

However, I've been given the same advice by every co-teacher: it doesn't matter what the music sounds like, they just want to see girls and girl groups.

The problem is, I feel really uncomfortable playing stuff like that in class. A few other co-teachers agreed: what they want to see and what is OK for class are very different things.

Does anyone have suggestions for good music videos or interest-grabbing videos I could play at the end of class? I'm thinking of Western girl groups (Spice Girls), but also anything that has clear and repetitive lyrics (i.e: Miss Jane - Its a fine day (ATB Remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iJU0EWsn5Q)

While I like club music, I'm open to anything/everything. I tried searching here at waygook for similar topics, but didn't come up with anything.

I'll be archiving the videos on my USB drive so I can easily call them up in class.

I intend to do simple word-gap exercises during the video. Students who hand in the paper with an attempt at a correct answer get a ballot for a monthly prize draw.

Thanks for any input!

My boy students (middle school) really like these "Just for Laughs" gag videos:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEB4EBCDDCF605225

My high school boys loooooove fail videos. I just make sure there isn't anything too terrible before I show them. Often times fail videos work great if you pause before the action, then the students can predict the outcome.

I had great reactions to this:

although it is shorter than  the clips you have in mind, a couple of these plus time to predict an outcome would take 3-5 minutes.

Awesome ideas, thanks everyone. :)

I might try and edit together a bunch of clips from (like the 'fail' videos), as I've found the 'best of' compilations can sometimes have some NSFW or just plain awful stuff in them.

Short animations are also a great call. I'm pretty sure Pixar has done some very short films as well that could go over well.

I originally tried to think of English-specific videos, or songs that would connect to the lesson -- but that was an exercise in failure. Since my high school seems to learn more toward 'teach western culture / something that is fun' (low, low level students) any of the suggested videos would work great.

If you have any other suggestions, feel free to link them below. :)

I had a CT who used to play Man vs Wild clips. Or something along those lines.

LoL stick figure spotlight videos on youtube are all massive wins!!
Believe..!!!