Job Interviews 3

In this lesson, the students did job interviews with each other to practise some of the language we've been talking about in the previous sessions (talking about strengths and weaknesses, your skills etc). We used the worksheet from eslflow, but only as a speaking activity, not a writing one.

How political are you?

I used this powerpoint with the terminale ES group to find out what they know about politics in the UK and France. The class ended with a lively debate about the French employment law reform. One of the students had been on the demonstration that day and was more than happy to discuss why he was against it.

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Questions for a Scottish person: survey and presentation

Both groups made a questionnaire using Google forms which I sent out to friends and family to be filled out. Each team had to find questions related to the theme they had done brainstorming on in the previous class (see Scotland week 45 materials). They had to think of 5 questions and choose the two best ones for the survey. They were encouraged to use open rather than closed questions.

Group A's survey
Group B's survey

 The students were given the following task for the next 2 sessions, which involved creating a Powerpoint presentation about their survey results.

L'Auberge Espagnole Part One

First, the students had to make the connection between the following pictures and if possible explain the film briefly to the others if they'd already seen it.

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Then we watched the following scene from the film and the students answered comprehension questions about it using this worksheet.

Finally, the students did a flat-hunting role play in groups of 4. One was a French person looking for a flatshare in the UK/USA. The others were 3 flatmates of different nationalities looking for new flatmate. They had to ask each other questions about the flat and the potential flatmate to see if the new person would be a good 'fit' for their apartment. Here are the instructions to show the students.

Coca Cola Christmas Adverts

In the second last session before Christmas, we spent about half an hour watching and discussing the Coca Cola Christmas adverts. The students really enjoyed working on these ads. We talked about the different elements of the adverts: the music, what we see, the Christmassy elements. We also compared the "classic" advert to the new ones.

Original Coca Cola Christmas Advert 

Christmas 2010 and 2015 versions

Motivation Pyramid Discussion

The students had to read this text and put the subheadings in the right place. The original blog post can be found here. In the following session, the students did a pyramid discussion activity. First, they had to classify the factors from most to least motivating according to their opinion. Afterwards, they worked in pairs/small groups to agree on the most/least motivating factors for the group. We then discussed this as a whole class and compared the choices of the different groups.

Video: how to get great marks in your oral presentations

Here is some feedback via video about the oral presentations I've heard and how to improve them. If you have any questions about this, don't hesitate to post them in the comments section.