2BAC: Stand-up tips for journalist students

Have a look to these examples and tips when you prepare your final assignment: a stand-up video reporting a piece of news from your parish in Andorra (or abroad!).

Overview:

https://newslab.org/tips-for-better-stand-ups/

LISTENING: Technical issues: (Digital competence)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SznY8sU8BH4

READING:

https://www.wbanewsroom.org/newsroom-tips/tips-for-stand-up-and-live-reporting/

You can write notes but you need to sound fluent and natural explaining your report.

WRITING

Let's write a decalogue with our own tips for an excellent stand-up, e.g.

1. Be in an informative setting, therefore, choose a significant background for your piece.

We can elaborate our own rubric to assess it! (LEARNING TO LEARN: L2L)

SPEAKING

Time to speak up and do your best!

ESO2: Irregular verbs show

Learning irregular verbs by heart can be hard but... We have some tricks!

We have already cattered for multiple intelligences:

Musical intelligence: RAP with irregular verbs

Artistic intelligence: DIAGRAM + COLOURING groups

Social intelligence: ACTING OUT different scenes with the verbs following the same patterns

Let's practise then!

Each group will be assigned a group from the following list and they have to invent a scene. The rest of the group need to identify the group and say a sentences with as many verbs as possible from the group using the past tense!

Example:  LEVEL !: SUPER EASY all verb forms are the same!

bet, burst, cast, cost, cut, fit,* hit, hurt, let, put, quit, set, shut, split, spread

Yesterday...

Last week...

One year ago...

...I bet I could burst a ballon without my hands. I set the scene: I put the balloon on a chair, a hit it with my bottom, but I hurt my leg because I cut my knee... and I split the chair too! So I quit the game; however, my friends spread the word around the school! It was so embarrassing!

More info: 

https://www.espressoenglish.net/tips-for-learning-irregular-verbs-in-english/

Write / memorize: (traitional way)

VISUAL:

RAP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdkHpxJ60b0

2BAC. Murder Mystery Game

Complete the following itinerary.

You will revise vocabulary and modal verbs.

Cultural note: you will follow the traces of Sherlock Holmes in London!

Guess: who is the murderer?

Can you guess who the murderer is?

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street/murder-mystery

Extra: 

1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/murder/

2) https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/can-you-catch-a-killer

3) https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/murder-mystery-game-murder-menu

2BAC: Modals

Source: Pinterest

(Source) At a glance:
http://englishteachermargarita.blogspot.com/2015/11/i-should-have-known-better.html?m=1

Explanation and exercises (British Council)
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/modal-verbs

20 online exercises:
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/modals-exercises.html

2BAC: MEDIA - news review

Vocabulary: jot down these usefol words to describe the elements you can find on a newspaper cover!

Have a look! Objectiveness is the ideal but media groups are subjected to editorial conditions. Where would you place broadsheets and tabloids? Could you do a similar diagram for Spanish media? And for Andorran media? Let's work our analytical and critical thinking skills!

*This is somebody's personal opinion, just remember it!

Listening practice. Challenge 1: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/social-media/social-media-scene-2-language-focus


Now. listen to the video and, then, do challenge 2! You have a vocabulary and grammar reference (click on the tabs).

The story

India's film censors have ruled that long kissing scenes in the new James Bond film Spectre are not suitable for the country's audiences. The Mumbai-based Central Board of Film Certification has made cuts to two scenes from the movie.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-1/session-2

ESO2: Thanksgiving day

Thanksgiving day
Let's watch the video about the first Thanksgiving Day:

Let's watch the video about vocabulary related to this topic:

 

2BAC: Different meanings with inf/-ing

Verbs like stop, remember, forget have different meanings: To stop + gerund means to cease, to stop + infinitive means not to move . To remember / to forget + gerund mean to remember/forget something already done. To remember + infinitive means to remember to do something in the future .

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-verbs-4.html


Exercise:
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/gerunds-and-infinitives-exercise-4.HTML

Summary:

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