Are you looking for your homework? Look no further! Here it is!
Watch the video and then answer the following questions:
( Intermediate level)
1. When and why was John Galliano sacked?
2. Where did it happen?
3. What adjectives does Michelle Kessler ,from New Tork Times, use to refer to Galliano’s behaviour?
4. Why is Natalie Portman so angry?
5. What adjectives does she use to express how she feels?
(answers here)
This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek and as you’ve probably guessed it means that different people have different ideas about what is beautiful, something I totally agree with. Don’t you?
But what is beauty? According to scientists, beauty has to do with symmetry combined with some gender-specific traits. For example, for women : full lips, large eyes, small jaw and nose ; and for men: squarer jaw, deeper-set eyes, full lips. Can you think of anybody with these traits? I surely have some in mind. All right ! Time’s up! Stop daydreaming and go back to reading!
By the way, did you know that women’s perceptions of beauty change throughout their menstrual cycle? I know it sounds a bit weird and I don’t want to believe it but unfortunately this is what research shows.
Anyway, this is a brief (or rather not so brief) introduction to what I wanted to say from the beginning of this article and this is that beauty is nothing without brains and the video below is proof of this.
I’m planning to use it with my elementary students, who are now studying the semantic field of FOOD.
Want to give it a go? Yes? Great!! So, now, watch it and then answer the following questions (if you want to do the hot potatoes exercise, click here)
1. What does the girl order?
2. Where are they?
Mixing traditional and modern teaching? What’s the right balance? That’s a hot issue and one I haven’t yet found the answer to but I feel that there’s nothing like the interaction between teachers and students or students among themselves.
In this lesson plan Focus on Films I’ve combined both traditional teaching and new technologies. I’ve even published one exercise Film Genres that I’d rather do with my students in class with them taking an active role in their learning process. You choose but what comes below is how I definitely plan to do it with my students.
I ‘ve prepared one set of blue strips of paper with the names of famous films and another set of green coloured strips with film genres. All in all I’ve written 10 strips of paper and then placed them on my table. Students will then come up to my table and do the matching exercise using blue-tack to stick the strips on the blackboard. I’m planning to revise by showing them only the films and then only the genres.
On the other hand, there is another exercise in this lesson plan where, if I were a student, I’d definitely choose to do using a computer and I’m referring to the brainstorming exercise we normally do on the blackboard. Well, I’ve had a lot of fun ( and also wasted a lot of time ) doing this brainstorming about films with this little application called Simple Diagrams, which I highly recommend (mainly because it’s free)
It must have been sheer luck that I bumped into this cool site only last week, just when I was gathering material to use in the FILMS lesson.
This site has been nominated as one of the 50 best sites in 2010 and it contains about 12.000 film snippets that can be searched by genre, director, props, setting…etc. Isn’t it just unbelievable that you can even choose Action and under this category choose whether you want a clip with a cough or a bump or a cry? Isn’t it just as amazing that you can choose the clip by Mood; do you want something inspiring,creepy or maybe funny?
The whole lesson, designed for intermediate students, comes with Vocabulary, Reading, Listening and Writing exercises. Click HERE to do it
My students from secondary school and me would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy 2011.
I hope all your dreams come true!
Though I did find it funny and witty, and though I agree that “Times change” but “Feelings remain the same”, I do think that there are some traditions that should never change and this is one of them.
… and deep inside I know this video is food for thought!