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IX Jornades Llengües Estrangeres a TarragonaNovembre 2011

Yolanda Scott-Tennent

• Handout

Why use them ?• Economising teacher prep. time > ready prepared to use [ computer,

beamer, etc.]

• If sent round, bound to be eye-catching / funny, or have m essage…

• Generally, quite short, frequently self-contained ite m/story.

• Provide opportunities forspecific practice (e.g. grammar, reading and listening c omp) less controlled practice ( e.g. oral and written practic e) presentation/revision,etc. new topics /structures in engaging way.

• Usually “authentic” docs ( not adapted or abridged)

• Can be “spinned out” or be a sandwich, hors d’oeuvre, dessert ortreat.

Background resources

Photograph Collections

• Beautiful photos

• Travelling and colours

• Action photographs

• Choose one of the photos andthen use it as background information for something else

> to give students a new life( like Mafia witnesses)

> to set the scene for anevent/story

> action photographs allow theprevious, but also add thepossibility of describing what’shappening (with a hugevariety!)

Topics

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Art

The Amazing Art of Dali

Double vision

Julia Beaver : Street Art

Vincent Van Gogh

• Description(adjectives, modifiers, articles, prepositions, position)

• Colours

• PreferencesMy favourite..The one which/thatI prefer… to …

Clothes and physical description

• Ariston Aqualis

• Nespresso

• Clothes items, description

• Wear/ suit/ match• Have on / put on/

take off ( simple phrasal verbs)

• Physical description, adjectives, adverbial clauses

Cultural events

• Carnival Jingle Bells?Specific vocabularyfor each of them

Traditions, routines, what happens, whatpeople do

Comparing differentways of celebrating

Food

• Carl Warner Foodscapes

• Art in the kitchen

• Danish Bacon

• Eating and eatinghabits

• Meal times

• Cooking and recipes

Houses and rooms

• Architecture • Description ofhouses, rooms, spaces, gardens..

School and daily life

• Exams

• Murphy’s Law

• Routine

• What I likemost/least…The thingthat …

• Something I’m alwaysunlucky with/ I alwayshave problems withAnecdotes

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Technology

• The Latest • First, decide whetherthe fact thatSpanish/Catalanappears on screen isa problem for you

• Technology/gadgets/

Work

• Waterslide

• Obama and Brown

• Jobs/professions

• Would like tobe/have…

• Comparing, clausesof consequence(so/such…that)

Grammar structures

• Paradox of our Times

• How to drive

• Children See

• The Black Hole

• The Future ofShopping

• Comparative forms

• Imperatives

• Modals[should/shouldn’t/must,etc.]

• Narratingevents;stories

• Future verb forms

• Budweiser ad

• Creative Publicity

• Another budweiser ad

• Painted Hands

• Present perfecttense

• The mostoriginal….I’ve ever…

• Why don’t we ?Suggestions

• AnimalsColoursHabits and routines

• The Evolution ofDance

• Cartoons of the 90’s

• Alarm clock

• Office work

• Reminiscing; pasttenses; “when” time clauses

• Continuous vs simple forms to talk aboutwhat is/washappening, “going to”for predictions

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• Don’t shorten yourname

• London 2012

• Magic 1

• Magic 2

• No Words (ads)

• Modals in the past : should/shouldn’t, must

• Tarragona 2017

Future tenses

• Passive voice/how things are done

• Infinite possibilities

Jokes and humour

• Past tenses

• So clause for resultor consequence

• Structures used forexplaining/givingreasons

• Present, real or typeoneconditionalform

• Position of“enough”

• Funny signs • Giving reasons >

what makes it funny

reason for/because

Listening ComprehensionPractice

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• Social Media ( Hot Potatoes M/C but can also createshort answer, matching, putting in order, gap fill [cloze]

Reading ComprehensionPractice

• I love this doctor

• How to annoy your teacher

What about these ?

• Wear a band

• My dream...

• Queen - promo

• I hope I have set your mind bubbling….

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