Lesson Summary

Aims

- To learn the difference between -ed adjectives and -ing adjectives

- To learn common phrases in spoken English

Main activities

- Listen to the episode

- Do the comprehension exercise

- Discuss the common phrases and do the exercise

Lesson Plan

Introduction

Explain to students that they are going to listen to the last episode of BCSW. Encourage students to think of what might happen in this episode. Write their ideas on the board.

Pre-listening

Tell students they are going to listen once and then answer these questions:

What is Magda’s good news? (She’s been offered a permanent job)
Where has Johnny been offered a new job? (Chongqing, Southwest China)
What is the news about the café? (it is closing down)

Listening - comprehension

Tell students they are going to do a comprehension exercise. Get them to read the true or false statements before they listen again. Explain the meaning of any unknown words or phrases.

Listening - vocabulary

Get students to work in pairs and do the two vocabulary activities (collocations and colloquial expressions). Elicit a few answers and encourage students to discuss any different ideas they might have.

Play the recording again and get them to check their own answers. If necessary refer students to the audioscript.

Listening - grammar

Write the following sentences on the board:

This class is boring.
I am bored.

The situation is worrying.
He is worried.

Ask students to discuss the difference between the –ed adjectives and the – ing adjectives. If necessary point out that an adjective ending in –ed describes a feeling that something produces – so I am bored is the same as I feel bored. Adjectives ending in -ing describe the thing that produces that feeling.

Get students to do the Grammar 1 exercise in pairs.

Check their answers.

Get students to do grammar two (articles) in pairs. When everyone has finished check the answers and make any necessary corrections.

Post-listening – who said what?

Divide students into pairs and give each pair a copy of Photocopiable 12 (please refer to Downloads). Explain that it consists of ten phrases from episode 12. Students have to decide who said what – and write the characters’ names in the name column.
Students should be encouraged to discuss each phrase and remember the context in which it might have been said. They should guess any that they do not know.

Answers: 1 Olivia, 2 Sarah, 3 Magda, 4 Johnny, 5 Olivia, 6 Sarah, 7 Fadi, 8 Sarah, 9 Harry, 10 Harry.

Downloads

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Photocopiable 12

Episode 12 audio