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Bedouin Soundclash take you to Guyana
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Lesson Duration:
1 hour
Lesson Level:
Upper-Intermediate / KS4 English
Date Lesson Uploaded:
18/03/2007 |
Description:
This exciting free lesson will introduce students to the melodic music of Bedouin Soundclash while taking them on a journey to Guyana the home country of Eon, the bass player of the band. The lesson includes 2 interesting worksheets for students to learn about the band and Guyana.
- Excellent reading comprehension based on the band biography.
- The students learn about Guyana through a true/false activity where they have to use Wikipedia.
- The final worksheet provides activities based around the brilliant Gyasi Went Home documentary music video.
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Fall Out Boy - A postcard from LA
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Lesson Duration:
60 mins
Lesson Level:
Pre-Intermediate / ESOL Entry 2
Date Lesson Uploaded:
02/07/2007 |
Description:
This fun and useful lesson should help lower level students to practise writing short letters and while also improving their confidence at understanding real English in real situations.
- Detailed worksheet to help students write a postcard, including photos from Los Angeles to give students ideas for what to write.
- Students must also include a selection of simple key words in their postcards which are words from the Fall Out Boy hit, Thnks fr th Mmrs (Thanks for the Memories).
- A final worksheet provides students with a gap-fill to complete while listening to the Fall Out Boy song. Students must use the words from their postcards to fill the gaps in the lyrics.
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Fall Out Boy - Thnks fr th Mmrs
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Lesson Duration:
3 x 50mins
Lesson Level:
Advanced / KS4 English & PSHE
Date Lesson Uploaded:
02/07/2007 |
Description:
In these lesson materials, the students will find out all about Fall Out Boy and get to watch the music video to one of their latest hits, Thnks fr th Mmrs. The materials break down into 3, 50-minute worksheets which will give students the opportunity to practise and develop a wide range of language skills.
- Interesting role play activity for the students to develop a dialogue discussing an ex-partner using some of the lines from the song, Thnks fr th Mmrs (Thanks for the Memories)
- A jumbled up version of the lyrics to the song for the students to organise. By using their knowledge from the first worksheet, and by using their general sentence and grammar knowledge students will enjoy this worksheet.
- An excellent extended listening activity where the students will watch online video interviews with the members of Fall Out Boy.
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Stars in their Eyes
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Lesson Duration:
80 mins
Lesson Level:
Intermediate+ / KS4 Eng+Citizenship
Date Lesson Uploaded:
23/04/2007 |
Description:
This lesson uses the hit track Stars in their Eyes, from Just Jack, to create a fun and interesting class for students to think about and discuss what it means to be a modern celebrity.
- Useful discussion worksheet to get students thinking and talking about their attitudes and opinions towards modern celebrities.
- Writing task to develop students' skills at writing short articles for a gossip column in a magazine.
- Lots of vocabulary input with practical definitions of key words.
- Final listening activity using the Stars in their Eyes music video.
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