Household Objects
Posted: June 29, 2016 Filed under: lesson plan, Viral Video | Tags: music, Pulp Fiction, Quizlet, speaking, Star Wars, vocabulary 2 Comments
http://flickr.com/eltpics by @borap, used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
MAIN ACTIVITIES discussing and writing descriptions, watching a clip, using online Star Wars vocabulary flashcards
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, intermediate (B1) and above
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Beetle Brawl
Posted: May 16, 2016 Filed under: Documentary, lesson plan | Tags: appearance, beetle, listening, ordering, personality, speaking, vocabulary 4 Comments
MAIN ACTIVITIES describing personality and appearance, watching a clip from a nature documentary, ordering a text
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-advanced (B2.2) and above
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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
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Ice Skating Penguins
Posted: February 3, 2016 Filed under: Documentary, lesson plan | Tags: collocation, listening, pronunciation, speaking, vocabulary 2 Comments
Adelie Penguin by David Cook is licensed under CCBY2.0
MAIN ACTIVITIES talking about learning how to do something new, collocations and pronunciation
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, upper-intermediate (B2) and above
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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
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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
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Click here for the PowerPoint presentation.
Dog Goldberg Machine
Posted: November 6, 2015 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: advert, cohesion, sequence, writing 4 Comments
Dog by Victor Svensson is licensed under CCBY2.0
MAIN ACTIVITY using cohesive devices (linking words, relative clauses and pronouns) to describe a sequence of actions
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, upper-intermediate (B2) and above
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Mini Burgers
Posted: September 8, 2015 Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: cooking, food, instructions, speaking, writing 1 Comment
Photo taken from http://flickr.com/eltpicsby Dace Praulins, used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/”
After a long summer, which has seen us working on two different continents, All at C are back with a lesson-plan courtesy of Japanese technology. It’s real and apparently it’s edible, but you and your students will have to judge for yourselves…
MAIN AIMS using food preparation and instruction-giving vocabulary, practising speaking and writing
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-intermediate (A2) and above
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A five-step lesson plan for (almost) any cooking video
Posted: July 22, 2015 Filed under: How To, lesson plan | Tags: cooking, food, presentation, speaking, vocabulary 8 Comments
Photos taken from http://flickr.com/eltpics by @ij64, @SerraRoseli, @ij64 and @purple_steph used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
MAIN AIMS using food and cooking vocabulary, preparing a short presentation
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-intermediate (A2) and above
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In the Air
Posted: May 15, 2015 Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: flying, instructions, listening, planes, register, safety, writing 8 Comments
Not so long ago, one of us took a flight on a low-cost Turkish airline and found out that they’re famous for their in-flight safety videos. Given that most people have heard the standard instructions many times, we thought we’d focus on what’s actually being said and how they’re saying it. Watch out for the cute video!
MAIN AIMS practise changing registers/ functional language of airline safety instructions / writing / listening for specific information
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, upper-intermediate (B2) and above
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