Base-jumping Barnacle Goose
Posted: March 19, 2015 Filed under: Documentary, lesson plan | Tags: CAE, David Attenborough, dictation, FCE, listening 4 Comments
Base-jumping in Norway by Andre Benedix is licensed under CCBY2.0
MAIN AIMS Listening, using a dictionary, prediction and sentence transformations
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-advanced (B2.2) and above
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes
Watch the video until the end – it doesn’t turn out to be as bad as you might expect!
All at C 
[…] MAIN AIMS Listening, using a dictionary, prediction and sentence transformations SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-advanced (B2.2) and above Click here for the Teacher's Notes Watch the video unt… […]
A real heart -in-the-mouth job! Somehow the unlikelihood of the chick surviving almost physically forces you to stop watching and you want to strangle the bloody parents waiting at the bottom and make them lay their eggs in a safer place. The clip emphasises the true meaning of an extreme adjective and shows how utterly inappropriate and ineffective graded adjectives would be. To set this up around an ambiguous initial sentence is pure genius. Hats most definitely off!
Thanks Jennifer! Wildlife documentaries can be a great source of heart-in-the-mouth moments and a great source of classroom material!
[…] MAIN AIMS Listening, using a dictionary, prediction and sentence transformations SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-advanced (B2.2) and above Click here for the Teacher's Notes Watch the video unt… […]