What is your name? Do you think that if you have a strange name it can affect you? Do you like your name? We will listen to some articles related to this topic.
These lessons are for teenagers or young adults with a language level of A2-B1-B2 and focuses on developing listening skills based around the topic of ‘names’. They are graded from A2-B2 1. A2
2.B1
3. B2. This is a higher level activity based on an interview.
1.- Here you can see the poster of the short you are going to watch. Pay attention to the image. What do you think that represents?
2.- Have a look at the title. Why do you think it is in two colours?
3.- In the following fotograms you will see people with a different mood. Match the pictures with the adjectives.
BORED WORRIED HAPPY NERVOUS
4.- Why do you think they are in that mood? Think about activities you do in your free time. 5.- Have a look at the Synopsis:The night is progressing normally for four people until an unforeseeable event prevents them from contiuning their actions.... What type of unexpected event is going to be? 6.- Watch the video and answer: Where are the characters and what relation is there between them?
7.- Pilar has got a private diary in which she writes every day. This is her latest entry: What a day today! As lately I'm not feeling very well,
this morning I decided to run away from math class, how boring! , and I went to
the gynecologist. Katy gave me a lift in her car; my goodness: I wouldn’t like
anybody to go through this alone. It has made an ultrasound and told me that
I'm pregnant. I went really very nervous. Imagine the situation: I still do not
know how I'm going to tell my parents or David. What a shit! I have written a
letter to David to tell him but I’ve just torn it up. Moreover, my philosophy teacher
has found me cheating in an exam. He has opened my pencil case,he discovered the cheat sheet and has shown it to the
rest of the classroom. I nearly die of shame. I’ve come back from school and got in my locked in
my bedroom. I’ve only come out because of the blackout. Tomorrow it will be a
new day. 8.- Decide if the following statements are TRUE or FALSE: a. This morning she skipped her maths lesson. b. She's gone to the doctor by car. c. She has copied the exam from a classmate. d. She has got home and slept all day. e. She has sent David a letter. f. Maths lesson is really boring. g. After the lessons,she has gone for a walk. 9.- What has Sara done? Find seven differences in the pictures:
10.- How is the relation in the movie between parents and children? Do you behave in a way similar to the brother or sister? Do you like it? Do you spend your free time with your family?
11.- Give advice to this family: a. You should... b. You ought to.... c. I wish you could..... d. If I were you.... e. You could... f. You had better..... 12.- What ending would you like for this story? Could you think of a different one?
This lesson is based on a beautiful short film called Signs by Patrick Hughes about communication. We are going to talk about communication, watch a short film and write a composition about improving their communication. 1. If you hear the word COMMUNICATION, what different forms of communication are there?
You may well come up with the following
forms: - Oral communication - Written communication - Non-verbal communication - Visual communication _______________________________________________________________ 2. Can you think of examples of each form of
communication? _____________________________________________________ 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each
type of communication? __________________________________________________ 4. You are going to watch a short
film about communication, and you should watch
out for the different types of communication used.
5. Let's get feedback on the film. Let's discuss the questions about the film.
a. Why is the film called Signs?
b. How does the young man feel at the
beginning of the film? Why?
c. What’s a normal day in his life
like?
d. What’s his job like?
e. What do his parents think his life
in the city is like?
Mikel Oblinsky is a storm photographer.We could say a storm chaser. Probably on of the best ones in the world. His videoshave become viral. Was storm photography how you started getting into photography?
I’ve always been a weather nut, and I would always write on Facebook that I should be a meteorologist, and why didn’t I go to school for that, and all that kind of stuff. So I always liked that, and I just started looking at photography, and started following some guys who were doing lightning photography, and thought, "that looks like so much fun." So I took this little camera out, and would just hold the shutter down, and it would just go click, click, click, and I would try to take pictures of lightning, and I got a few that were ok, and then one night I got an amazing one, and I couldn’t believe it. Then I got on the local news, and I was hooked from there. I told my wife, “I’ve got to get a camera that can do long exposures,” so we sold all of our DVDs on eBay for almost $500, and I bought a Canon Rebel and just started from there. Answer the following questions: a. What would Mikel have liked to study? b. What do you unerstand by lightning photography? c. What type of camera did Mikel need? d. How did he manage to buy a better camera? How do you find storms to shoot? In the summer out here in Phoenix, there are pretty much storms from July 1st to sometime in September. There are storms somewhere in Arizona unless there’s a really big dry period. So the night before, I’m always looking at forecasts, reading what the weather service people say, looking at models of predicted radar. And just kind of from experience, I’ve lived here my whole life, so I understand how the storms work. Answer the following questions:
a. When is the time for storms in Phoenix? b. How does Mikel know where to find a storm?
