US Travel Advisory France Part 1

In this class, the students studied a text entitled US Travel Advisory.Unfortunately I don't know the source of this text - a friend who had been an assistant suggested we use it when we were working as 'lectrices' at the university and it worked very well with the students!
Once we had established that it was a humorous text based on the stereotypes of the French we had already discussed or seen, I asked the students to work in groups of 3-4 and assigned them different paragraphs to work on. They had to identify criticisms and positive aspects of France as well as the advice given to American tourists and the image projected of these same tourists by the text. If we had time, we also discussed which stereotypes they thought were justified or not. I projected this worksheet to help the students organize their ideas.
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What is the BBC?

In this class, I presented the British Broadcasting Corporation to the students using these slides and they then characterized the organization together and also thought about its strategy, micro environment and how it differs from other organizations they've studied.

Geoff Marshall [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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.

L'Auberge Espagnole Part 2

We started this session with a Flipquiz and/or corrections from last week's role-play. We then watched another two scenes from the film using this worksheet. 
William's ideas about the Spanish and the Germans will lead in to some work on stereotypes within the Spaces and Exchanges theme. 

Questions for DNL students

I've made a list of questions for DNL students about their school trips which could be useful for practising the baccalauréat oral exam for this subject.

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.

Micro Environment

The students read this text quickly and had to find subheadings for the different paragraphs labelled 1-6 to revise the micro environmental factors affecting a business. The original text can be found here. Afterwards, for a business of their choice (preferably one they had already talked about or seen in class), they had to identify and explain the different micro environment factors affecting it. They then gave a quick presentation to the other students about their company and its competitors, suppliers, customers, employees, media, and shareholders.

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.

Questions to ask after the Christmas and New Year holidays

You could use this list of questions as a basis for a discussion with a group during the first week of term. Click here for the link to the Google Doc. 

Speaking: Inventions | Onestopenglish

This is a lesson plan that I used with the STMG group. Speaking: Inventions | Onestopenglish

New Year in Scotland and in France

Just a Minute : a game for developing spoken fluency

I've written a blog post on my site for English Language Teacher in France about how to set up and run this activity.