Oh my God! can you believe we are already in May??? Three lessons left with my intermediate students and so much to teach them!
I have to admit that we are all tired. If last week felt long I wonder how is this next week going to feel? I read somewhere that this feeling is called Short Timers Disease ( a disease, really?? ). Apparently , it is an ailment that prolongs time and saps your enthusiasm when a holiday is imminent.
So, being in May, are you suffering from this mythical Short Timers Disease?? Let’s hope not.
These are the Speaking Activities I am planning to do with Intermediate Students . There is a bit of everything in the hope that they enjoy my last lessons.
You can download the whole lesson plan here.
TASK 1. JUST FOR FUN . Ask one student to read the following poem aloud. ( good to introduce some new vocabulary). It is called BEFORE THE COMPUTER
BEFORE THE COMPUTER
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano!
Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account!
And if you had a broken disk,
It would hurt when you found out!
Compress was something you did to garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You’d be in jail for awhile!
Log on was adding wood to a fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode!
Cut–you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider’s home
And a virus was the flu!
I guess I’ll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody’s been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead!
TASK 2. PICTURE DESCRIPTION. PREPARING FOR CERTIFICACION EXAM. Student describe and comment on the following pictures. (useful vocabulary here)
![](https://www.cristinacabal.com/imagenes/ninos.jpg)
TASK 3. VIDEO Ask students if they know what the term Nomophobia means. Play the video I forgot my Phone and ask students to share their thoughts.
Task 4. SOME QUESTIONS TO TALK ABOUT
· What are some of the benefit and dangers of the Internet?
· What is your favourite piece of technology?
· Are there any new gadgets that you really want to get?
· What are the main ways in which technology has changed society?
· What do you think elderly people think of modern technology?
· How have technological advances affected your life?
· Do you think modern technology reduces or increases stress? Why?
· How has technology changed education?
· How do you think face to face communication differs from communication using computers?
· Are you connected to the Internet at home? What do you use your connection for?
· What’s your favourite website?
· Do you often buy things over the net?
· Do you use social network services such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn?
· If you do, How often do you use it/them?