THE IMITATION GAME - Worksheet

 The Imitation Game - Worksheet

Level: C1

Activities:

1- Creating mind maps.
2- Thinking of other topics that have called the students´ attention.
3- Researching Alan Turing´s life.
4- Summarising the film in a sentence.

Goal:

1- To get students to prepare vocabulary on the topics shown in the film in preparation for a writing.

2- To think about other topics that might have been historically relevant at the time and link them to the present time.

3-  To encourage students to find out about historical characters´ relevance beyond the story shown on films.

4- To synthesize ideas with semantically and grammatically rich language.

Debate Session on Donald Trump: Barbara Streisand - Don´t lie to me! B2-C1 Level

Last weekend Barbara Streisand released a new song criticising Donald Trump´s politics.

Here you will find the link and a few questions to hold a debate in class.

Enjoy!

SILENCE - Session Plan (A2-B1 Level)



Silence is the topic my school has chosen this year to work on in an interdisciplinary manner throughout the whole year. I have prepared this session for my 11-year-olds.

Skills: Debating, teamworking, negotiating, synthesizing, presenting orally, taking notes and writing creatively.

Length: 3 - 4 sessions

Content:

1. Teacher´s intructions.
2. Students´ instructions.
3. Document to take notes about other groups´ oral presentations.
4. Document to jot down key words or ideas for their oral presentation.
5. Template for their poem.

Running Dictation on Sports and Disability

Running Dictation on Sports and Disability (Intermediate Level - B1-B2)


Why not make your students read, memorise, speak, write and of course, have fun??? This running dictation is based a British Council session plan that I have modified and expanded to fit my classgroup needs.

Length: 1 hour

Skills: Reading to memorise, pronunciation, listening,  writing accuracy and debating.

Content:

• Running Dictation (text to be pinned up and text for the student being dictated to)
• Work on the idioms in the text.
• Links to watch and debate on Sport and Disability. 

APAC Autumn Session 2018

Yesterday morning, I attended the APAC Autumn Session. I can only say that it was packed-full of inetesting ideas and resources to use in the classroom. It was also a good motivational kick to help us end the term!!

The session started with a lecture by Dr David Bueno on Neuroscience and the Brain. He explained the importance of bilingualism, how the brain learns in different ages and about the importance of emotions to retain knowledge. It was food for thought!!!

Here are some links to my discoveries of the day:

APAC

Richard Byrnes - Free Technology for Teachers

Teach Thought

Meritxell Cano Autet

Trinity College- B1 Resources

Trinity College - B2 Resources

Thanks to the organisers for their good work!!!