Coronavirus and language
Level: Upper Intermediate/Advanced
Summary: a listening and reading activity on the rhetoric used to talk about coronavirus. Featuring an article from The Conversation and a clip from BBC Newsnight
Level: Upper Intermediate/Advanced
Summary: a listening and reading activity on the rhetoric used to talk about coronavirus. Featuring an article from The Conversation and a clip from BBC Newsnight
| coronavirus_and_language.docx |
Katie Bouman and the black hole picture
Level: Upper Intermediate
Summary: a lesson plan with a short video featuring Dr Katie Bouman, one of the scientists responsible for the first image of a black hole, exercises on decoding word chunks in spontaneous speech and a reflective sheet for learners to think about their listening difficulties.
Level: Upper Intermediate
Summary: a lesson plan with a short video featuring Dr Katie Bouman, one of the scientists responsible for the first image of a black hole, exercises on decoding word chunks in spontaneous speech and a reflective sheet for learners to think about their listening difficulties.
| katie_bouman_and_the_black_hole_picture.pdf |
A framework for independent listening
Level: Intermediate+
Summary: a worksheet detailing how learners can create their own listening exercises and develop their decoding and meaning-building skills
Level: Intermediate+
Summary: a worksheet detailing how learners can create their own listening exercises and develop their decoding and meaning-building skills
| a_framework_for_independent_listening__2_.docx |
Listening methodology
Level: Pre-intermediate+
Summary: a learner-friendly explanation of how listening processes work and how to watch a movie with the purpose of practising listening. Knowing about their learning makes learners feel empowered and more in control!
Level: Pre-intermediate+
Summary: a learner-friendly explanation of how listening processes work and how to watch a movie with the purpose of practising listening. Knowing about their learning makes learners feel empowered and more in control!
| listening_help_-_methodology.docx |
Pronunciation and intelligibility
Level: Intermediate+
Summary: do your students ever confuse the concepts of pronunciation and accent? With this PowerPoint lesson, you can raise their awareness of English as a Lingua Franca and the need for them to be intelligible rather than "sound native". Particularly effective with Italian students, features a video of former PM Mario Monti speaking on CNN.
"Retro microphone" by alangrlane is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Level: Intermediate+
Summary: do your students ever confuse the concepts of pronunciation and accent? With this PowerPoint lesson, you can raise their awareness of English as a Lingua Franca and the need for them to be intelligible rather than "sound native". Particularly effective with Italian students, features a video of former PM Mario Monti speaking on CNN.
"Retro microphone" by alangrlane is licensed under CC BY 2.0
| intelligibility.pptx |
Trump's inauguration speech
Level: Intermediate+
Summary: a listening lesson based on Trump's inauguration speech, with a focus on activating schemata, recognising tone, listening for details and reacting to a spoken text
Level: Intermediate+
Summary: a listening lesson based on Trump's inauguration speech, with a focus on activating schemata, recognising tone, listening for details and reacting to a spoken text
| inaugural_speech.docx |
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Songs for decoding and grammar practice (conditional)
Level: Intermediate+ Summary: a lesson based on the songs "I should have known better" by The Beatles and "All I want is you" by Barry Louis Polisar, with a focus on second and third conditional and decoding practice of how they are pronounced in connected speech. | ||
Business meetings: opening a meeting
Level: Pre-intermediate+
Summary: a lesson plan focused on the exponents needed for opening a meeting, going through the agenda e getting things started; includes a listening from BBC Learning English
"Link Humans business team meeting Finchley"by Link Humans is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Level: Pre-intermediate+
Summary: a lesson plan focused on the exponents needed for opening a meeting, going through the agenda e getting things started; includes a listening from BBC Learning English
"Link Humans business team meeting Finchley"by Link Humans is licensed under CC BY 2.0
| business_meetings_-_opening.pdf |
Beauty standards
Level: Pre-intermediate+
Summary: speaking, listening and vocabulary work: this lesson gets learners to talk about and reflect on the theme of beauty standards across countries thanks to two videos: one on Lammily, a doll made according to the proportions of the "average" girl, and one on how a woman's picture was photoshopped around the world according to local beauty standards.
"doll" by toooooool is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Level: Pre-intermediate+
Summary: speaking, listening and vocabulary work: this lesson gets learners to talk about and reflect on the theme of beauty standards across countries thanks to two videos: one on Lammily, a doll made according to the proportions of the "average" girl, and one on how a woman's picture was photoshopped around the world according to local beauty standards.
"doll" by toooooool is licensed under CC BY 2.0
| beauty_standards.pdf |
Gross National Happiness
Level: Pre-intermediate+
Summary: in this lesson, learners read a short text about the "Gross National Happiness" concept, talk about it and watch a video about its application in Bhutan.
"Bhutan Jakar - Kurjey Lhakhang Tsechu" by Anja Disseldorp is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Level: Pre-intermediate+
Summary: in this lesson, learners read a short text about the "Gross National Happiness" concept, talk about it and watch a video about its application in Bhutan.
"Bhutan Jakar - Kurjey Lhakhang Tsechu" by Anja Disseldorp is licensed under CC BY 2.0
| gnh.docx |
Walt Disney
Level: Intermediate
Summary: in this short activity, learners brainstorm what they know about Walt Disney, watch a video about his life and draw a timeline about his life.
Photo by Kenrick Mills on Unsplash
Level: Intermediate
Summary: in this short activity, learners brainstorm what they know about Walt Disney, watch a video about his life and draw a timeline about his life.
Photo by Kenrick Mills on Unsplash
| walt_disney.pdf |
Jimmy Kimmel interviews Barack Obama
Level: Upper-intermediate
Summary: in this listening activity, learners watch a short extract from an interview that TV host Jimmy Kimmel did with Barack Obama. Learners work on their general comprehension and then zoom in on their decoding of individual words in the video. Finally, learners focus on the pronunciation of were and weren't in spontaneous American English speech and compare it with British English pronunciation by using YouGlish.
Photo by Lubo Minar on Unsplash
Level: Upper-intermediate
Summary: in this listening activity, learners watch a short extract from an interview that TV host Jimmy Kimmel did with Barack Obama. Learners work on their general comprehension and then zoom in on their decoding of individual words in the video. Finally, learners focus on the pronunciation of were and weren't in spontaneous American English speech and compare it with British English pronunciation by using YouGlish.
Photo by Lubo Minar on Unsplash
| jimmy_kimmel_interviews_obama.pdf |
