authentic teaching materials
Contents week of: 13/03/17
Activity Description Language focus Level
QUIRKY NEWS:
Warmer A discussion activity Intermediate+
Oral skills
(3 pages) based on recent odd (B1+)
news.
HOW FUNNY ARE YOU?:
Warmer Intermediate+
A discussion activity Oral skills
(2 pages) (B1+)
based on finishing jokes.
Listening GLOBAL NEWS: Listening
Low-Intermediate+
C 1 practice based on recent Listening skills
(A2+)
(3 pages) news stories.
Listening + reading BBC NEWS: Listening and
Listening + reading Intermediate+
C 2 reading practice based on
skills (B1+)
(3 pages) recent news stories.
AMERICA’S
COMPLACENT CLASS:
Listening
Listening practice based Mid-Intermediate+
C 3 on an interview with the
Listening skills
(B2+)
(2 pages) author of a book about
segregation in the US.
CHICANO BATMAN:
Listening
Listening practice based Advanced
C 4 on an interview with the
Listening skills
(C1)
(3 pages) band Chicano Batman.
Listening BUSINESS NEWS: A look
A study of phrasal
C 5 at recent business news
verbs with back
Intermediate+ (B1+)
(6 pages) from around the world.
QUESTIONS OF LIFE:
Reading Three newspaper articles A study of idioms Mid-Intermediate+
(5 pages) each with a different with face (B2+)
personality question.
LENT AND ASH
Reading WEDNESDAY: A A study of phrasal
Intermediate+ (B1+)
(4 pages) newspaper article about verbs with kick
Lent and Ash Wednesday.
VISA-FREE TRAVEL: A
A study of despite,
newspaper article about a
Reading although, etc. Low-Intermediate+
new European Parliament
(4 pages) for expressing (A2+)
ruling on US citizens’
contrast
travel to Europe.