2025-01-15

Upper Secondary B2.1

Lesson Aims

• Listen and learn about artists who are using music to challenge cultural stereotypes.
• Reflect and share my views on the importance of music.
• Observe, analyse and practise language for talking about change.

Material

• pages 4-5

Homework

• learning hub

Incidental Language

• prejudice
• genre
• norm

2025-01-13

Upper Secondary B2.1

Lesson Aims

• Demonstrate an understanding of how music can break down cultural barriers.
• Examine loanwords that have been introduced into English from other languages.
• Analyse unknown words to work out their meaning.
• Talk about how music can help bring together people from different backgrounds.

Material

• new magazine pages 1-3

Plan

• warmer
  • What kinds of things connect people to different cultures?
  • Discuss origins of instruments
  • Do you think music connects people?
• pre-teach
  • Preconceived ideas – Beliefs or opinions formed without sufficient knowledge or understanding.
  • Cutting-edge – Extremely modern and advanced; at the forefront of progress (e.g., “cutting-edge musical fusions”).
  • Immersed – Deeply involved or engaged in an environment or activity (e.g., “immersed in new and ancient traditions”).
  • Collaborate – To work together with others on a shared activity or project.
  • Profound – Very great or intense, especially in terms of influence or effect (e.g., “had a profound influence on the music”).
  • Fusions – The process or result of joining two or more things together to form something new (e.g., “musical fusions”).
• magazine work

Homework

• learning hub

Incidental Language

• flagship
• collaborate
• residence

2025-01-08

Upper Secondary B2.1

Lesson Aims

• Main Aim:
  • To practice using future tenses and modal verbs to describe future plans and aspirations.
• Secondary Aims:
  • To develop creative thinking and visual representation skills by creating a vision board for the next three years.
  • To improve writing fluency and organization by journaling about 10-year dreams and three-year goals.
  • To enhance speaking skills by sharing and discussing personal visions with peers.
• Personal Development Aim:
  • To encourage self-awareness and long-term goal setting through reflective and creative tasks.

Homework

• finish all learning hub materials for the current magazine

2024-12-18

Upper Secondary B2.1

Lesson Aims

• By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
  • Developed creative storytelling skills by collaboratively crafting narratives using Untold: Adventure Awaits and story cubes.
  • Practiced speaking fluency through active participation in role-playing and storytelling discussions, using appropriate descriptive and narrative language.
  • Enhanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills by resolving in-game challenges and making decisions that influence the storyline.
  • Strengthened teamwork and collaboration by working in groups to create cohesive and engaging stories.
  • Used new vocabulary and idiomatic expressions relevant to adventure and storytelling, expanding their linguistic range in a creative context.

Homework

• learning hub

2024-12-16

Upper Secondary B2.1

Lesson Aims

• By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
  • Analyse the language used for persuasion in discussions and presentations.
  • Research the effects of a common ingredient on health using reliable sources.
  • Deliver a speech about a food-related issue in their school or local community, using persuasive and informative language.

Material

• Project

Homework

• Finish learning hub materials

2024-12-11

Upper Secondary B2.1

Lesson Aims

• Recognize and understand the organization of a lecture.
• Use signpost phrases to help describe a process.
• Create and deliver a presentation about a process.

Material

• study skills
• story cubes

Plan

• banana cards
• skills
• story cubes

Homework

• learning hub

Incidental Language

• keep one’s attention
• seasoning
• flour