Unit 4- Lesson Plan 3: Documentary Titanic

Survivor (Mr Frank Winnold Prentice) accounts of what happened on the Titanic.



Winnold's biography here

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 2: Documentary: Gender Pay Gap

Bill set to expose gender pay gap

Many employers will be made to reveal how much male staff are paid compared with their female colleagues, in an effort to close the gender pay gap.

The Equality Bill aims to tackle discrimination against a range of groups including women, the elderly and those from lower social classes.

Sue Littlemore reports.

Watch the documentary and analyse the main ideas.

CAE READING AND USE OF ENGLISH PRACTICE

Here you'll find another interesting webpage for you to practise your use of English: gap filling, wordformation, multiple choice... and your reading. There are also some tips on writing!go and have a look!

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 2: Homework Wordformation

Try all these activities on wordformation and see how good you are at forming words.

Advanced English

Do these activities or read these articles to learn some vocabulary: Write down your new words and tell us in class:

Privacy

The Internet

Warfare

Globalisation 1
Globalisation 2 Article you read in class


Environment You'll new the Pronunciation dictionary for these words!

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 1: True or False

Listen to Daphne and discuss children education today and then select Daphne's arguments against parents' views on boarding schools*.

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board", that is, food and lodging.

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 1- Open Cloze: Exam Tips

Read the following extract from a brochure giving advice on taking an examination. For questions 1-12, type the word which best fits in each space. Use only one word in each space.

Unit 4- Lesson Plan 1: Multiple Matching: This Month's letters

Try this Multiple Matching activity, use a dictionary from the Section 'Dictionaries' if you need some help.

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 1: Would/ Used to (The Phantom)

The Phantom of the Opera (Total: 2’46)

Watch the video segment and observe how different Paris used to be in 1870. Pay close attention to the following people and objects.

Write sentences using used to or would:
1 – A lot of employees/ theater _______________________________________
2 – Musicians/ on the stage _________________________________________
3 – Dancers/ whiskey during the rehearsals_____________________________
4 – Horses/ in the theater __________________________________________
5 – Actors/ operatically ___________________________________________
6 – Singers / rich costumes _________________________________________

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 3: Internet Slang

Do the quizz online.

Try to answer as many questions as you can. If there are any you are unsure about check the word by going to the slang translator.

Learn new vocabulary, write it down, and tell us next day in class!

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 5: Be used to/ Get used to / Used to

Practise your use of the verbs 'get used to/ be used to/ used to with these activities.

Activity 1. Read the explanation and do the quizz.

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 4: Homework: Article Local Schools

You see the following on the letters to the Editor Page in your local newspaper. 'Local schools are being broken into and vandalised in the evenings and at weekends by gangs of youths. What can we do to stop this from happening? Write in with your suggestions'

Remember:

1- Introduction: What is the problem?
2- Main Body: What are your suggestions or possible results?
3- Conclusion: How would you sumarise your opinion?

Unit 3- Lesson Plan 2: Research on education

Surf these links and find good information about Education in the Uk and Education in the USA.

1st Link

2nd Link

3rd Link

Unit 2- Lesson Plan 4: More practice: Interview

These are some of the most Frequently asked questions at an interview. They also give you some advice:

Click here, read and get some good advice. Are you planning to apply for a job??

Unit 1- Lesson Plan 5. Question Tags Homework

Print this PDF document and do the activities, if you want to check your knowledge on Question Tags.

Unit 1- Lesson Plan 4: Weddings Homework

Watch the video and write why are these weddings so special? What's a geek??

Unit 1- More Practice: Importance of being polite

Activities to practise Polite Requests

Activity 1. Who would make these requests?

Activity 2. Choose the best answer for the requests.

Activity 3. Polite Speech

Activity 4. Politeness. BBC Quizz

Unit 1- More Practice: Take notes about how English people express sorry: language and body language.

Click here and have a look at the script, learn vocabulaary and listen to the conversation

Unit 1. Lesson Plan 3: Homework English Intonation exercise

English pronunciation exercise: Most often students end up learning correct pronunciation of individual words. However they always don't sound as natural as they want to.The problem is most often the use of the wrong intonation of sentences. In English the mood is most often reflected in the way we say words and sentences. This quiz will give you a great idea of how words can mean different things when pronounced in different ways.Please you need speakers on your computer.

Click here to start the quizz

Unit 1- Lesson Plan 3- Homework : Quizz Indirect Questions

Choose the correct indirect question to be used as a more polite way to form the original question. There is only one correct answer. When you are finished click on the "Next Question" button. There are 30 questions to this quiz. Try to use only 30 seconds per question. At the end of the quiz, you will receive quiz feedback.

Click here to start the quizz.