Teaching Britain –

with onestopenglish

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� Cinematic listenings

� Adventures through London past and present

� Episode 1: Camden

“Slang is the counter language. A jackanapes lexicon of the dispossessed. The language of the rebel, the outlaw, the despised, the marginal, the young. Above all it is the language of the city – urgent, pointed, witty, cruel, capable both of excluding and including. It’s endlessly resilient, inventive and untameable. Its age is of speech itself. If there has always been a standard, inevitably, there has always been an alternative.”

Dictionary of Slang, Jonathan Green

���� Gig anecdote:

- First/best/worst?

Guess who?

� Ghost stories:

- Translate from own language

- Whole-class Consequences game – ‘It was a dark and stormy night …’

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The play’s the thing

What five locations

would serve to create a

picture of life in your country?

� Authentic language

� Regional accents

� Accompanied by worksheet and teacher’s notes

� The pub, The bus stop, The supermarket, The bank, The train

� Guess where

� Reorder the script

� Extend the play

� Halve the script

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Coming to you live from …

Edinburgh

Cardiff

Stratford-upon-Avon

London

Oxford

ChristmasShakespeare

Homesickness

Ideal summer

Sports

Sights

New YearTeachers

News

Perfect daySmoking ban

The Economy Breakfast

Learning English

Art

Music

���� Make your own! Live from … ?

TopicLocation

Tourists

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Famous faces

Roman Baths The British Museum

� Plan a trip

- Length of stay

- Group

- Budget

- Obstacles!

Stonehenge

Classroom tourists

www.visitbritain.comwww.facebritain.org.uk

www.romanbaths.co.uk www.english-heritage.org.uk

www.britishmuseum.org

Visit Britain

� Guess who?

� Analyze this

Happy holidays

� Tell another student about their ‘visit’

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Queen’s English?

1. I don’t Adam and Eve it! (believe)

2. I fell down the apple and pears.

(Stairs)

3. Sadly he’s been brown bread for the

last five years. (dead)4. My trouble and strife is staying home

tonight. (wife)

5. I love a good cup of Rosy Lee. (tea)

6. You can’t be serious! You must be

having a bubble bath. (laugh)7. You can’t trust him. He’s always

telling pork pies. (lies)

8. You can call me later on the dog and

bone. (phone)

9. My jam jar has only driven 5,000 miles. (car)

10. He’s really rich, he earns a lot of

bread and honey in his job. (money)

British Library’s ‘Sounds Familiar?’– Accents & Dialects of the UK

London’s secret language …

www.bl.uk

� RP or not RP? – discussion

� Where from?

� Come up with own rhyming slang – use recent vocab set

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� How does the UK feature in the news in your country?� What are the recent stories?� How do you think your country features in the news abroad?

Britain in the news

Making headlines

• Beckhams a ‘bad example’ for families

• Britons still happy despite financial woes

• Dale Farm: 'They promised a peaceful eviction. This wasn't peaceful‘

• Gang members taught first aid for stab wounds

• London riots: Tottenham residents seek answers

Onestopenglish news lessons

� Topical lessons

� Guardian newspaper

� Versioned for three levels: Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced

� Weekly/monthly

� Pre- and post-reading activities

� Make a radio/TV show

� ‘Interview’ someone featured

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A year in the life –Festivals in Britain

Mother’s Day

St Patrick’s Day

Glastonbury

Easter

Christmas

� Make a wall calendar for the UK and your own country

� Hold a party!

New Year

Summer Solstice

Halloween

Plan your year with onestopenglish!

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