BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY

Lesson Plan:

• Step 1. Warm-Up: students in pairs do Worksheet 1 .Many thanks to One StopEnglish.com and Lisa Clandfield for saving me time.

• Step 2. Watch the video. It lasts about 8 minutes . Click on the image and watch the video in youtube (for copyright reason the video is no longer available for embedding, click here to watch it in youtube)

• Step 3. Students ,in pairs, do the exercise below

And now, answer the following question and check with the script.

What are Bridget’s New Year resolutions?

• Step 4. Watch the video again to check answers.

• Step 5. Watch it again with the script for this extract .

• Step 6. British system of weight and measures

• 1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms

• 1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams 

• 1 Imperial pint = 0.568261485 litres

• 1 Imperial gallon = 4.54609188 litres 

• 1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers

• 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters 

• 1 foot = 30.48 centimeters

• 1 yard = 0.9144 metres