contents of brush up workshop

Contents of the workshop “BRUSH UP YOUR ENGLISH”

Communication games

Listening activities

Songs 

Video extracts

Open dialogues

Phonology

Stress, rhythm, intonation, pronunciation

Reading aloud / dialogues

Poems

American English/British English

Roleplay: restaurant, complaining, taking things back

English vocabulary

Classroom English

Modern slang  eg BOGOF

Phrasal verbs

Compound words

Compound nouns, prefixes and suffixes

Order of adjectives

Style activity: things I wouldn’t be seen dead in!

Idioms

Transparent vocabulary  (“loan words”)

Food and drink

Sports

Technology and music

Places, buildings, geography

Animals

Clothes

Jobs

Lexical field

Out of date vocab; what not to teach! (copybook, after)

Reading

The Titanic newspaper articles

The clock strikes 12

A reading log writing exercise

Talking

Picture analysis

Prediction

Explicit and implicit

Pairwork – drawing

Advertising

video of TV ads

Target audience

Product

Slogan

Catchphrase

Special effects / talking / music

Message (implicit?)

imagine a dialogue (parent + teenager / fireworks)

A film

Tell the group about a film to make us want to see it, don’t tell the story

Show a video scene, no sound, someone gives the commentary

How to……Technical English

Describe how to make something (coffee, fried egg, pancakes etc)

Describe how to use something technical (computer, fax machine, OHP)

Describe something technical, your speciality, use tech vocabulary

Teach the group how to play a game or do an activity

Definitions: give definition, guess object

Cultural information

Modern statesmen

School systems