My latest resources were meant to be review work with vocational classes... yep, that's right! They can surely be used to introduce vocab on means of transport but my classes are so weak that they didn't find them as easy as one might think.
Right now I'm teaching the topic "Communication in the Professional World" and one of the coursebook texts is about business travellers. Before introducing the text, I planned some review work focusing my attention on vocabulary. To boost their interest, I chose a short excerpt of the movie "Up in the air" in which Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a corporate downsizing expert who travels around the country not only firing people but also giving motivational speeches on relieving one's life of excess physical and emotional baggage. Having said this, you might want now to have a look at the excerpt I used in class:
This would also be a good movie to talk about jobs / unemployment / technologies / priorities in life...
If you wish, please have a look at my worksheets available in the ISSUU shelf above (disclaimer: last page contains two adapted exercises).
About Me
- Teacher Alex
- Portugal
- I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources. I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.
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