Entertainment and Media: Lesson 1

Let's Play a Game:

Let's play a snakes and ladder board game. You will need a counter and an online dice.

How to play:

• Each player puts his counter on "start here".
• Take it in turns to roll the dice.
• Move your counter forward the number of spaces shown on the dice.
• Ask a player one of the questions about Entertainment below or create your own question.
• If your counter lands at the bottom of a ladder, you can move up to the top of the ladder.
• If your counter lands on the head of a snake, you must slide down to the bottom of the snake.
• The first player to get to the space that says 'home' is the winner.

Materials:

Print: Snakes and Ladders board

Click: Online Dice

Questions about Entertainment:

1.  Do you ever go to concerts?
2. How important is TV to you?
3. How much TV do you watch in a week?
4. Do you like the same TV programmes as your parents?
5. Tell us about a TV programme you've seen recently.
6. Do you enjoy going to parties?
7. How often do you read newspapers?
8. Do you like shopping? why/why not?
9. Where do you like listening to music?
10. Do you like going to the cinema?
11. Tell me about your favourite film star.
12. Tell us about a film you really like.
13. Do you enjoy playing computer games?
14. Do you use the internet much?
15. What do you use the internet for?
16. Do you ever listen to the radio?

Discussion Time:

Here are some types of TV programmes and a question for you to discuss.

Why would people choose to watch these TV programmes?

Which type of TV show would be the most popular?

Which one would attract more advertisers to spend money on advertising their products? 

Describe the short video to a person with no eyes

What do you need to do?

• Describe the background: weather, time of day, 
• Say where the people or animals are.
• Talk about their emotions.
• Say what they are doing.

 

Hobbies: Are you good at speaking English?

 

Can you name some hobbies?

What are you good at?

Click on: Vocabulary for Hobbies

Note: You can print the vocabulary for hobbies pages and make cards. Use the cards to play a memory game. 

Useful Structures:

Question: Are you good at ... ( hobbies)? For example: Are you good at doing ballet?

I am good at (hobbies).

I am great at (hobbies).

I am not so good at (hobbies).

I am terrible at (hobbies).

How to Play memory game:

• Mix the cards then place them face down on the table.
• Players take it in turn to turn over two cards of their choice in order to try and create a pair. 
• Players show the cards to all the players.
• If the two cards are identical, the player keeps them. 
• If the two cards are not identical, he places them face down in the same place. 
• It is then the turn of the next player to turn over two cards.
• The game ends when there are no more cards on the table.
• The player who has the most pairs wins.

Questions:

Let's practise asking and answering questions about hobbies. Try and use complete responses.

1. What do you like doing in your free time?

I like ______________

2. When do you have free time?

I have free time ______________ (after school, after dinner, at weekends ...)

3. Who do you spend your free time with?

I spend my free time with _____________ (my sister/brother/parents/friends...)

4. Where do you spend your free time?

5. Where do Spanish children usually spend their free time?

6. Can you explain one of your hobbies to me?

7. When did you start doing your favourite hobby?

8. Which hobbies are the most expensive?

9. Which hobbies are the cheapest?

10. Which hobbies are the most popular in your country?

What are the differences between these hobbies?

Let's play a game:

Online Dice

Spot the differences

Travel and Holidays: Lesson 3

Holiday Activities

Types of Holidays: What kinds of holiday do you want?

Do you remember the Holiday Activities?

Compare the pictures:

Talk for TWO minutes:

We are going to talk together for about two minutes. Here are some things that people think are fun to do on holiday and a question for you to discuss. 

First you have some time to look at the task. 

Talk to each other about: 

'Why do people think these things are fun to do on holiday?'

Finally, 

'Which two activities are best for a family holiday?'

Useful Phrases:

To Start:

• Which one shall we start with?
• What do you think?
• I think you know a lot about [_______]. What's your opinion on it?

Moving to the Next Item:

• Shall we move onto [______] now?
• So what about [______]?
• I wonder if we can compare [current topic] to [new topic]?
• What about this one? [Pointing to topic]
• What do you think about this idea?
• How do you feel about that one?
• We're running out of time, so let's move on.
• We still need to discuss [topic].
• That connects with the next topic.
• [Topic] is pretty similar to the last one - maybe we can skip it for now?

Ending your turn:

• What do you think?
• Don't you agree?
• Do you have anything to say about that?
• Do you have anything to add to that?
• Did I forget anything?

 Interrupting:

• Sorry to interrupt but...
• Just a second...

Agreeing:

• Right.
• Good point.
• I fully agree.
• I was just thinking that!
• I was just going to say that!
• That's just what I was thinking.
• I couldn't agree more.
• You're totally right.

Disagreeing (with reasons):

• Maybe, but what about...?
• I think it would be better to...
• I'm not so keen on that.
• I don't really agree with you there.
• Well maybe, but...
• Yeah, but, the thing is...
• The problem with what you said is...
• For one thing...[reason 1] And for another... [reason 2]

Reaching a Decision:

• Well, I think it's definitely not [topic]
• We can eliminate [topic] right away. Don't you think?
• So then, what do you think is the best one?
• I guess you think we should choose [topic]?
• Are we both in favour of [topic]?
• Okay, so we agree.
• I don't think we're going to agree on this!
• Let's agree to disagree!