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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Parisian Love: vocabulary, speaking and writing task


Aim: students speak and/or write about long distance relationships
Procedure: students prepare to watch a 50 second  video about a long distance relationship  by carrying  out the tasks provided on the enclosed PowerPoint. Later students write a composition on the subject.
Possible special occasion: St. Valentine's
Level: B1 or higher. Also a good task to help students write their first composition in PAST SIMPLE

You can download the materials from this site HERE 

Sample of task on Power Point
Materials:
  •  Video: Parisian Love. You can watch it on-line (Youtube) or download it with the rest of the materials
  • Teacher's Notes. Key to task
  • Power Point with task for the students  
You can download the materials from this site HERE  



THIS IS THE VIDEO 
Tasks by María  Zabala Peña.
Thanks to John Lavery,  speaker at the September 2013 British Council workshops 
for providing me with this video

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