This lesson contains 10 slides, with text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 90 min
Items in this lesson
Biographies
Term 4 - Lesson 4
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To Do
- Listening/Watching
- Part 2 &3 from the Biography assignment
- Explanation Balloon Debate
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Term 4
Week 23: Part 2/3 Biography assignment
Week 24: Balloon debate ( 12/13 June)
Week 25: Listening test ( 19/20 June)
Week 26: Film
Hand in your Biography no later than 23June 2019.
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Balloon Debate
To gain experience speaking in an informal debate setting.
To think creatively to generate relevant arguments.
To develop persuasive responses to simple questions.
There are four people in a hot air balloon. It is sinking because it is too heavy. The only way for them to survive is for one person to be thrown out of the balloon.
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Balloon Debate
Round 1: give a short speech (no more than 2 minutes) explaining why your character should not be thrown out of the balloon.
Round 2: ask each other questions and answer questions
Voting: how well did each person do in persuading them in favour of that character?
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Listening / Watching
Watch the video and answer the five multiple-choice questions.
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Slide 7 - Video
William Shakespeare
1564-1616
poet, playwright, actor
great influence on the English language
fashionable, lonely, eyeball, manager
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Slide 9 - Link
Writing a Biography
Part 2: Researching
Step 5: Answer the questions in Appendix 1.
Step 6: Gather three quotations by and three quotations about your subject. Be accurate!
Lesson duration is: 90 min
