Don’t Let Me Go
Posted: December 11, 2021 Filed under: Advert, Christmas | Tags: advertisement, animals, Christmas, observation, speaking, vocabulary 8 Comments
Happy Christmas, everyone. Here’s a Christmas lesson plan that isn’t based on a John Lewis advert.
Dog to Lion
Posted: April 14, 2020 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: Advanced, First, grammar, shopping online, speaking, wish 9 Comments
Photo by Alexas Fotos on Pexels.com
Now that we’re all teaching online, here’s a lesson plan that can be used on Zoom (or any platform with chat and breakout rooms). It’s suitable for teens and adults, B2 and above.
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes and here for the PowerPoint.
Excitable Edgar
Posted: December 12, 2019 Filed under: Advert, Christmas, lesson plan | Tags: Advanced, Bastille, Christmas, First Certificate, REO speedwagon, speaking, storytelling 6 Comments
Here’s a lesson plan based on this year’s John Lewis advert. Happy Christmas!
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes and here for the PowerPoint.
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 17 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.
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.
Cut to the Chase
Posted: April 12, 2016 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: bank robbers, beer, car, chase, police, vocabulary Leave a comment
Chase Scene by Alan Levine is licensed under CCBY2.0
MAIN ACTIVITIES making predictions, vocabulary to talk about car chases in movies
SUITABLE FOR adults, advanced (C1) and above
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes
The Man on the Moon
Posted: December 14, 2015 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: APTIS, CAE, Christmas, FCE, John Lewis, speaking 3 Comments
Full Moon for all Moods by Konstantinos Kazantoglou is licensed under CCBY2.0
MAIN ACTIVITIES describing and comparing photographs, storytelling and discussion.
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, upper-intermediate (B2) and above
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes.
Foot Talc – a Christmas lesson plan
Posted: December 9, 2015 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: Christmas, listening, speaking, vocabulary 1 Comment
Every year we like to produce one or two Christmas posts based on a seasonal advert and our first one for this year stars a famous Hollywood actor trying to solve a classic Christmas problem.
MAIN ACTIVITIES predicting/ listening for specific information/ talking about Christmas / using vocabulary featured in the text
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, upper-intermediate (B2) and above
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes.
Click here for the PowerPoint presentation.
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