If you are a regular to our blog, you may have noticed that I use ads quite a lot. I suppose the idea here stems from my time in Korea and Spain where a lot of the language I taught myself came from signs, billboards, ads and basically anything I saw as I walked around the city. I learnt so many chunks and phrases and was then able to manipulate them slightly to express myself. I also saw words and phrases that I’d learnt elsewhere being used in different ways. I really think it is important that students are taught to use this skill of analysing everything that they see around them and so here is yet another in the English is all around you series.
If you’d like to see some of the others, you can find them here:
This is a very quick lesson and could probably slip into any larger lesson on conditionals or could be used as a revision.
Level: Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
Objective: By the end of the lesson students will be better able to analyse and manipulate the language around them.
Aims:
- to examine hypothetical conditionals for the present
- to encourage language analysis
Material:
Procedure:
As far as procedures go, this one is short and sweet like the lesson. Basically follow the instructions on the worksheet and you’ll be fine.
What I will say is that at the end, I would include a reflection stage where students think about the benefits of analysing the language all around them. Also, I’d encourage them to think about when / where they would use this language.
Follow-ups:
- Take the sentences that the students produced in the final activity and examine the pronunciation. (I’d is one of the hardest features of fast speech to hear for learners of English as it is reduced to practically nothing, something being little more than just a schwa).
- Students bring in ads from online, papers or around the city and analyse them in class.
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