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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Music for Classroom Games

I'm planning to use the word game 'Countdown' in class at some point, so I wanted the authentic music to go with it, which was easy enough to find on YouTube. I've also discovered a random letter generator thanks to tekhnologic's excellent blog. While I was searching for other countdown/game show music, I came across all different kinds of videos that could be used in class, including some nice TV show theme quizzes. I've compiled it all into this playlist which you might find useful. Enjoy.

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.

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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.