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.
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.
The videos for this lesson have disappeared. We can’t find them anywhere. If you come across them anywhere, please let us know!
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes
Image made using photos taken from http://flickr.com/eltpics by @mkofab, @YTatLE, @eltpics, @CsillaBen, @CsillaBen and @steve_muir used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Tea Leaves
Posted: November 12, 2013 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: advertisement, leaving, observation, tea, Tetley, vocabulary Leave a commentOur drink of choice at allatc is definitely tea – and not just because it rhymes with the name of the blog! So we’ve decided to dedicate our posts this month to the king of hot drinks, starting with this classic ad. Feel free to do them all as a thematically-linked set, or to dip in and out as the mood takes you. But always with a drop of milk and a biscuit…
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Two for the Price of One
Posted: July 19, 2013 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan, Talk | Tags: advertisement, challenge, listening, marshmallow, speaking, Starbucks 2 Comments
Marshmallow Nightmares!! by katerha on Flickr
As many people, like us, are finishing up summer courses before holidays, we thought we’d round off the academic year’s posts with two activities to both start and finish your last week of class. The first activity for Monday is a quick warmer involving some creative thinking and an advert for Starbucks. And as a final activity on the Friday, try the famous Marshmallow Challenge. Our classes loved it and it practically guarantees going out on a high. Have a great August everyone and we’ll be back with more in the autumn.
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Food for Thought at TESOL Spain 2013
Posted: March 10, 2013 Filed under: Talk | Tags: advertisement, cooking, food, images, personalisation, speaking, vocabulary 4 CommentsThank you to the TESOL Spain team for organizing a great conference. As usual, I wish I could have split myself into two or more parts to get to all the talks I wanted to….
Here’s the handout for my talk. Thanks to everyone who came – I hope you enjoy using the activities.
Dumb Ways to Die
Posted: January 8, 2013 Filed under: Advert, Animation, lesson plan | Tags: advertisement, listening, vocabulary, YouTube 9 CommentsHappy New Year from allatc! In December just gone, three separate people sent this video and issued a challenge to do something with it – never something we were going to be able to resist! It’s very funny, full of wonderful vocabulary and has allowed us to make use of the fabulous eltpics website. It’s also our first blog post to use content from Australia – something long overdue. And it has a dance routine…
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes.
Image made using photos taken from http://flickr.com/eltpics by @sandymillin, @cerirhiannon, @fionamau, @annapires, @sandymillin, @sandymillin, @mkofab, @dfogarty, @dfogarty, @teacherphili, @sandymillin, @thornburyscott, @sandymillin, @sonrisadelcampo, @yitzha_sarwono, @sandymillin, @sandymillin, @cgoodey, @theteacherjames, @ij64 used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
The Snowmen
Posted: December 10, 2012 Filed under: Advert, Animation, lesson plan | Tags: advertisement, Christmas, jigsaw, John Lewis, observation, speaking, vocabulary 4 Comments
Image made using photos taken from http://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics by @nutrich, @cgoodey, @thornburyscott, @steve_muir, @evaguti and @leoselivan used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/”
This time last year John Lewis released a sentimental advert featuring a boy who can’t wait to give his parents the perfect Christmas present, and we based a lesson plan on it. This year’s version is in a similar vein. Featuring a love-struck snowman, the ad contrasts nicely with the more irreverent take on the traditional Christmas commercial from the makers of the infamous Scottish soft drink, Irn Bru, which we’ve also included in this activity.
Click here to find out what we did with it.
Friends for Life
Posted: July 13, 2012 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: advertisement, friendship, Harvey and Rabbit, images, observation, vocabulary, YouTube 2 Comments
This TV ad, called Harvey and Rabbit, made me laugh and on that basis alone, I had to come up with an activity for it! The idea of the ad is the unexpected nature of the scenes, which both grab your attention and make you eager to see the next one. I’ve made the activity into a group competition combining memory and accuracy of expression…..
Friends for Life Teacher’s Notes
And that’s all from us for the time being. Tom’s working on a teacher training course at a Dublin University in July and August and Steve’s going to Hong Kong to work on summer school at the British Council. We’re both back to real life in mid-September, so look out for a new blog post shortly afterwards. In the meantime, have a great summer!
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