Crab Invasion
Posted: April 21, 2014 Filed under: Documentary, lesson plan | Tags: BBC, crabs, eggs, listening, pronunciation, vocabulary, word cloud Leave a comment
In our third post this month, eggs get another mention, a word cloud makes another appearance, and there’s a focus on words with multiple meanings. This time we use footage from the BBC documentary series Wild Caribbean. In the clip we see a cast of crabs (or a consortium of crabs, according to some sources) travel from land to sea to lay their eggs. And this week there’s no boiling, scrambling, poaching, frying or chocolate eggs to make starving students faint with hunger during classes at lunch or dinner time.
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Easter Eggs
Posted: April 8, 2014 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: advertisement, chocolate, Easter, lamb, observation, speaking, vocabulary 5 Comments
In our second slightly egg-themed post this month, we take a look at some traditional foods that are eaten at Easter. First, we focus on collocation and explore words that can combine with chocolate, Easter and lamb. We then move on to watch a couple of videos stuffed with a mouth-watering mixture of Easter edibles. To finish off, students put all the vocabulary into practice before going off to do some food photography at home.
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How to Boil an Egg
Posted: April 1, 2014 Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: cooking, Delia Smith, eggs, food, listening, personalisation, speaking 1 Comment
As egg lovers, we were delighted to read recently that eggs have been taken off the nutritional blacklist. So we’ve come up with this egg-themed lesson to pay tribute to one of the most nourishing foods you can eat. We begin by looking at vocabulary related to describing and preparing eggs. We then go back to cooking basics and watch Britain’s bestselling cookery writer, Delia Smith, making soft and hard-boiled eggs. Throughout the lesson, there are lots of opportunities for students to talk about their experiences of eggs, or should we say eggsperiences?
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A Paper Swan
Posted: March 17, 2014 Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: instructions, origami, paper swan, speaking, Videojug, writing 1 Comment
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Sticking to the theme of paper, while at the same time using the fantastic website at Videojug, this latest lesson is a chance for the origami enthusiasts to show off. There will be planes and swans and a close look at the language of instruction, both written and oral.
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A Piece of Paper
Posted: March 6, 2014 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: ad break, paper, speaking, vocabulary, writing 4 Comments
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The first post of March is taken from The Guardian’s monthly review “Ad Break” – a brilliant video resource for classes. In this ad from Russia, a simple piece of paper can be a powerful force for good or bad. If you can speak the local language, you’re at a slight advantage here but the possibilities for interpretation for the rest of us made for imaginative suggestions in our classes.
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Multiple Choice – an Urban Legend
Posted: February 4, 2014 Filed under: lesson plan, Short Film | Tags: exams, personalisation, speaking, urban legend, vocabulary 7 CommentsWhat do you do if oversleep and miss the start of an exam? If you’re anything like the three hapless characters in this short film, you come up with an excuse and hope your teacher falls for it. Based on a short film, which in turn is inspired by an urban legend that many of you will have heard, this lesson starts off with discussion about the topic of exams. Students then watch the film, which should provide them with lots of opportunities to increase their range of vocabulary, both exam and non-exam related.
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