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.
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.
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.
Monty the Penguin – a Christmas lesson plan
Posted: December 10, 2014 Filed under: Advert | Tags: Christmas, John Lewis, penguin, speaking, vocabulary 2 Comments
cute penguin couple – explored by Adam Foster is licensed under CCBY2.0
MAIN AIMS Talking about the past and present, storytelling, vocabulary acquisition
SUITABLE FOR Teens and adults, Intermediate (B1) and above
This lesson plan is inspired by Jamie Keddie’s videotelling idea.
Click here for a pdf of the Teacher’s Notes.
Video 1
Video 2
If you want lesson plans based on John Lewis adverts from other years, check these out:
The Hare and the Bear (2013)
The Snowmen (2012)
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (2011)
The Bear and the Hare – a Christmas lesson plan
Posted: December 8, 2013 Filed under: Advert, Animation, lesson plan, Song | Tags: bear, Christmas, hare, John Lewis, listening, speaking, Tesco, vocabulary 7 CommentsTake an occasionally controversial singer out of a short, self-imposed retirement, give her a Keane song to cover, add a bear, a hare and a beautifully crafted Christmas cartoon, mix with some activities focussing on listening, speaking and vocabulary development, and you have our Christmas lesson plan for this year.
Click here for the Teacher’s Notes.
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.
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Posted: December 2, 2011 Filed under: Advert, lesson plan | Tags: Christmas, jigsaw, John Lewis, observation, pronunciation, vocabulary, YouTube 13 CommentsI came across this and was spellbound by the beautiful music, the wonderful little boy and the unexpected ending. It also fit the bill perfectly for a jigsaw-style video activity I’ve been wanting to try for a while now. It’s taken a good hour-and-a-half with every class we’ve tried it out on but they’ve all said the time flew. And they were desperate to see the ending! Try it out and see what you think, but first, watch it yourself!
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want Teacher’s Notes
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want Student Worksheet
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want Webquest
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