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Intermediate

Speaking

Title: The Great Television Debate
Target Language: Debate about watching TV, reading.
Description: After completing a survey about their own TV-watching habits, the class is divided into two groups and each prepares to argue two sides of a debate about television and family life. Newspaper articles provide some ideas for both groups.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3S1

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Title: I Just Want To Sunbathe
Target Language: Speaking lesson based on beach/vacation activites.
Description: Students talk about what they like doing while at the beach. A short reading is used as the source for a debate/discussion before a speaking flashcard-based game finishes the lesson.
Duration: 55 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3S2

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Role Plays

Title: Corston Vale Relief Road
Target Language: Role Play: persuading, agreeing, disagreeing, negotiating, etc.
Description: Students are divided into groups and try to reach a decision on the location of a new road.
Duration: 1 hour minimum.
Lesson Plan: 3RP1

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Title: Save The Beach!
Target Language: Role Play: persuading, agreeing, disagreeing, negotiating, etc.
Description: The local beach is being literally blown away and solutions are required fast! Your students will take on the roles of local academics, politicians, tourism chiefs and residents to save the beautiful Poet's Beach.
Duration: 70 minutes minimum.
Lesson Plan: 3RP2

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Topics

Title: Online Shopping
Target Language: Online shopping, writing a letter of complaint.
Description: This is a lesson about online shopping which tries to give students practice at speaking, reading and writing. The main reading/writing focus is on letters of complaint.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3T1

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Title: The News
Target Language: The news on TV, radio and in newspapers. Bias in the news media.
Description: Students choose which news stories they would find interesting. After a "news vocabulary" exercise, the focus moves to bias in the news and two different slants on a single news event.
Duration: 65 minutes.
Lesson Plan: 3T2

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