The Boy and the Piano
Posted: December 10, 2018 Filed under: Advert, Christmas, lesson plan | Tags: Elton John, images, John Lewis, listening, music, piano, speaking, storytelling, your song 15 Comments
Good intentions to update the blog more regularly have remained just that, but we have managed to do something with this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert. We hope you and your students enjoy it.
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes and here for the Powerpoint.
A Christmas lesson plan
Posted: December 4, 2017 Filed under: Advert, Animation, lesson plan | Tags: Christmas, images, Moz the Monster, speaking, speculation, storytelling 10 Comments
Main activities speaking, speculating and storytelling
Suitable for teens and adults, upper-intermediate (B2) and above
A Christmas lesson plan Teacher’s Notes
The Teacher’s Notes contain everything you need for class, but if you’d rather display the images using Powerpoint, click here.
An Oddly Unsatisfying Video
Posted: June 19, 2017 Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: CAE, FCE, speaking, unsatisfying, vocabulary 4 Comments
Main activities describing, comparing, First Certificate and Advanced speaking test practice
Suitable for teens and adults, upper-intermediate (B2) and above
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes
The pdf contains everything you need for class, but if you’d rather display the images using Powerpoint, click here for the slides.
Buster the Boxer – a Christmas lesson plan
Posted: December 11, 2016 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: animals, Buster the Boxer, Christmas, John Lewis, sounds, speaking, speculation, vocabulary Leave a comment
Every December we produce a lesson plan based on the John Lewis Christmas advert and this year’s offering features a dog called Buster, a trampoline and an assortment of wild animals. The lesson is suitable for teens and adults, upper-intermediate (B2) and above, and includes speculation, observation and vocabulary to describe sounds.
Click here for a pdf of the Teacher’s Notes.
The pdf contains everything you need for class, but if you’d rather display the images using Powerpoint, click here.
Planet Earth 2
Posted: November 14, 2016 Filed under: Documentary, lesson plan | Tags: iguana, music, nature, planet earth, prediction, sloth, snake, speculation, storytelling 4 Comments
Main activities Speculating, predicting, storytelling
Suitable for teens and adults pre-advanced and above (B2.2)
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes.
Employable Me
Posted: July 20, 2016 Filed under: Documentary, lesson plan, Uncategorized | Tags: collocation, impressions, listening, speaking, vocabulary, work 8 Comments
MAIN ACTIVITIES collocations with impression, talking about work, watching clips from a documentary about job seekers with neurological conditions such as autism and Tourette syndrome.
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-advanced (B2.2) and above
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes.
