Resources and copies of materials used
Materials are sorted by date used in class. All the materials are in pdf format. If you need any help, or have any questions, contact Neil on the address below. Thanks.
1st December: Role-plays- Rules, Britannia – An Insider's Guide to Life in the United Kingdom
- Guide to some areas of the UK
- video: http://gouk.about.com/od/picturegalleries/ig/Top-UK-Sights/
- video: http://gouk.about.com/od/uktoppicks/ss/7wondersofuk.htm
- video: http://www.visitbritain.tv/wales/britain-be-a-part-of-it.html
- video: http://www.visitbritain.tv/most-popular.htm
- info on Britain's regions: http://wikitravel.org/en/England
- info on Britain's regions: http://www.touristnetuk.com/region.htm
- Planning a school trip to London
- London guides are available at http://www.visitlondon.com/maps/guides/
- Welcome to London autumn 2010 (short guide)
- London city guide 2011 (complete guide-book)
- Video: High on London
- Video:10 Things You Need to Know About London
- Video: pics of London
- Video: Lonely Planet guide to London
- Video: visiting London: top 10 must see_places
- Video: visiting London
- Thanksgiving (a), including vocabulary sheet
- Thanksgiving (b)
- Thanksgiving (extra article, intermediate level)
- Thanksgiving role play worksheets
- First Thanksgiving video on Youtube
- Global population worksheet
- World Population at 7 billion (b)
- VOA – World Population to Reach 7 Billion in Two Years (a)
- VOA video on Youtube
- How the World Can Cope with 7 Billion Humans
- Overpopulation - some solutions
- Planning lessons around the theme of fireworks & Bonfire Night
- Planning a Back Garden Firework Display
- Transcript of Bonfire Night video (b)
- Bonfire Night Listening Comprehension (b)
- Fireworks curfew in UK (b)
- Bonfire Night Listening Comprehension (a)
- Bonfire Night article (includes recipe for parkin) (a)
- Idioms with "fire" (a)
- Twenty things you never knew about fireworks
- Firework Safety Leaflet
- Gunpowder Plot - UK Parliament information sheet
- BBC video on firework ban
- BBC video on Guy Fawkes
- ELS pod tv on Bonfire Night
- Coldplay - Cemeteries of London
- Death & Dying euphemisms & slang expressions
- All Souls' Day (b)
- Death discussion questions (b)
- Death and Dying - An Introduction (a)
- Questions about death and dying (a)
- The Four Phases and Tasks of Grief (a)
- Writing epitaphs
- Coldplay video on Youtube
- Halloween Verbs
- Halloween Vocabulary
- Halloween Vocabulary Worksheet
- Haunted Halloween Story Exercise
- Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart (a)
- Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (a)
- Halloween Origins & Traditions (a)
- Halloween haunted house & propositions (b)
- Halloween Origins (b)
- Halloween Board Game (b)
- Kinds of Monsters (b)
- Lost in the Woods story
- Monster Riddles card
- Red Ribbon story
- Bollywood
- BBC report on 2011 Cannes Film Festival
- Film titles for charades
- Film trailers
- Trailer on Captain America: The First Avenger
- Film clip: Tomatina - Ik Junoon (Paint it red) - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
- Film synopses (group B)
- Describe 3 famous people
- Vocabulary for seeing a film
- Cards to ask about films
- Vocabulary for film genres and rating (group B)
- Discovering a film from clues
- Describing films with posters
- Talking about films
- Useful language for talking about films
- Vocabulary for reviewing films
- Video on how to annoy people in the cinema
