Advanced classroom activities B2
This is a place to have a look at some activities we did in the classroom or some other activities we did not have time to do there, or even some suggested activities for you to improve your English.
LUKE'S PODCASTS: LISTENING/SPEAKING ACTIVITY
Initially in groups of 6 people you will choose two of these podcasts by Teacher Luke, a different one each:
1) Dr.Who 2) Dating and Relationships 3) Having babies (a male perspective) 4) UK superstitions 5) Memory and Mnemonics 6) David Bowie 1 and David Bowie 2 Find the podcasts on DOWNLOADS. Find the summaries and/or transcripts on the respective pages above.
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All the episodes with transcripts |
AT HOME
1- Listen to the podcasts you chose or were assigned. Look all the words you don't know up in a dictionary or on the internet, using a good online dictionary. 2. Make a good summary of what you listened to. Collect more information from the internet and photographs (if needed) to help you make a speech for your group in the classroom. 3. Study your summary, and write down an outline of it . You are not allowed to read full sentences, but you can use the outline and the pictures you collected or any other relevant information you want except full sentences from the transcript or your summary. Suggestions: -If you find the podcasts quite "heavy" concerning vocabulary, select the most interesting or unknown vocabulary to use in the classroom. Your classmates can always opt for listening to them by themselves at any moment. -Practise your speech at home. Remember that you should be talking for 10-15 minutes maximum about one of the podcasts in the classroom. IN THE CLASSROOM Each member of your group will explain one of their podcasts to the rest of the group, using the outline, pictures or information collected from the internet. They should be talking for 10-15 minutes maximum. You should listen carefully and ask questions at the end, take notes of possible questions while your classmate is speaking. It would also be a good idea to try to anticipate some questions in advance about the other topics (without listening to them). Use the speech transitions on downloads B2 and the organisation of a speech from english is a piece of cake if necessary. THIS ACTIVITY IS OVER |
Find dictionaries below:
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OLD ACTIVITIES FROM OTHER TEXTBOOKS/SCHOOLS
FAMILY. SKELETONS IN THE CUPBOARD. Who do you think you are?
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Peer Assesment.
In the colloquial English section of your textbook there are some interviews about dark family secrets and people who made or want to make some research into their family tree. In the UK there is a documentary programme on BBC one on this topic. It is called Who do you think you are?.
Use the automatic subtitles but do not trust them much as there are lots of mistakes.
PAIR-ACTIVITY ON TWO EPISODES OF WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
Use the automatic subtitles but do not trust them much as there are lots of mistakes.
PAIR-ACTIVITY ON TWO EPISODES OF WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
Here are some passages from two episodes of this TV programme
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Ian Hislop |
INTERVIEWS
To complete this topic you can watch the silly job interview by Monty Python on the Intermediate Archiveintermediate-joepinetreebush.weebly.com/intermediate-archive.html. A video I showed students in San Fernando before doing an activity interview in the class