St Patrick's Day Lesson

In this class we used the following material from Reward English: a quiz about Saint Patrick, Ireland and the Irish, a text to check the answers to the quiz and finally a crossword puzzle to review the new words and to learn more about the topic (the answers to all the clues are in the text). The students were surprised to learn that the official colour of Ireland is blue!

Burns Night

As a Scottish person, I generally celebrate Burns Night on the 25th of January. This evening of haggis eating and poetry reading is in honour of Scottish national poet, Robert Burns. In this lesson, there is a video from scotland.org about Burns' life as well as a worksheet and a hilarious video all about haggis that also comes with a worksheet. Everything is on the padlet below. The fantastic haggis video came from Michelle Henry's website. 

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Christmas Adverts

The lesson plan for the John Lewis advert is available here

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New Year in Scotland and in France

We Wish You a 70s Christmas

How did people celebrate Christmas back then? We use some retro pictures and a Paul Mc Cartney song to understand the spirit of Christmas back in the 70s.

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Lundi 7 décembre

Here's how we summed up the last question about the video :



Click here to access the written work the students produced in their groups to sum up the video.

Seconde lundi 23 novembre

Here's what we did in class with the second group on the topic of selfies. 

Seconde lundi 16 novembre

Here are some examples of the work produced and the vocab ulary learned/revised in this session about selfies.

Première mardi 17 novembre

Here is the "trace écrite" from this lesson, summarizing the paradoxes of 1970s British life.

Première Mardi 24 Novembre

Examples of vocabulary elicited/taught in class plus sentences students thought of about living in the concrete jungle. The students knew quite a lot about the skinhead movement and seem to want to talk about this and find out about other alternative cultures in the 1970s.

"The Voice" descriptions game

Hi, Here is a class that I think is perfect for students in "seconde" as it allows them to practise describing people using the Voice TV show. I got this idea from Svetlana's ELT-Cation blog. I've made a padlet to go with this lesson :

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I'll also be using clines to help the students revise the modals and adverbs of possibility. This is a idea taken from ELT Recipes