LESSONS

• 4 GENERAL TEACHERS' NOTES
• 5 GENERAL TEACHERS' NOTES - Teaching speaking and listening skills

Worksheets which offer a range of activities and can be tailored to the needs of the group

• 7 SCHOOL REPORT -gives students an opportunity to report on the school
• 9 CRIME! WATCH! - various activities focusing on observation, memory and description
• 11 FOXHUNTING - discussion on the issue of foxhunting

Worksheets suitable for most students, involving basic analytical skills and mainly discussion work

• 13 FAME - deducing identity through using closed questions
• 15 MOVING IN - roleplay to develop ability to speak clearly and persuasively
• 17 GETTING TO KNOW YOU - finding out about another person by asking tactful questions and listening attentively to answers
• 19 WHAT DO I DO? - game to develop speaking, listening and deduction skills
• 21 999 - focuses on making a 999 call
• 23 LEND ME SOME MONEY - listening attentively, drawing out information, and empathising
• 25 MAKING THE RULES - the need for school rules, and why they are important

Worksheets involving greater analytical skills, some reading and writing, or basic roleplay

• 27 SLANG - the vocabulary of slang, its current influences, and how it changes over time
• 39 FINDERS, KEEPERS - a moral question to provoke discussion, analysis, and reaching a consensus
• 31 SCHOOL REUNION - improvised roleplay
• 33 CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT - roleplay of a customer complaining to a shop
• 35 COLLISION COURSE - discussion of evidence, and taking different viewpoints
• 37 RULES OF THE GAME - students write instructions for a board game
• 39 WEIRD RECIPES - activity focusing on voice, purpose and language used

Worksheets which are more challenging, involving more sophisticated analysis, sustained group work, more advanced reading and writing, or more complex role plays

• 41 FUN TO BE YOUNG? - the issue as a topic for class debate
• 43 THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE - students debate the issue of smoking
• 45 IT'S THE WEEKEND! - students prepare and give a formal talk
• 47 JUST A MINUTE - a timed speaking task to encourage quick thinking, fluent speaking and careful listening
• 49 NEWS 2020 - students write and present a radio news piece
• 51 WET - students continue extracts in an appropriate style
• 53 LIVING STORIES - looking at the concept of oral tradition
• 55 COME TO BRITAIN! - students devise a section for a radio travel programme
• 57 GO-SPOT - students analyse an advertisement, and create their own
• 59 STRANGE LAND - drama activity with scripted and unscripted performance
• 61 LEAVING HOME - using a song extract as stimulus for improvised roleplay

Appendix

• 62 MOVING IN - support material for MOVING IN
• 63 CRIME! WATCH! - support material for CRIME! WATCH!