Sexting: is technology endangering teenagers?

You are going to

• listen to a radio debate on teenagers and technology
• discuss the dangers and benefits of new technologies
• do a sentence matching exercise
• prepare and write an IELTS style question on the subject

1) Discuss

• Should teenagers  be prevented from using new technologies or should they be trusted to develop their self-awareness of the dangers of modern gadgets?
• How can teenagers be protected or protect themselves?

2) Listen

"Bringing Up Britain"
Mariella Fostrup is joined by a panel of child protection experts and commentators to debate
the dangers and benefits of raising ‘digital kids’. Sexting, using a smartphone to send indecent images to others, is a particular worry to parents of teenagers. Mariella asks whether teenagers should be prevented from using these technologies or whether they should be trusted to develop their self-awareness of the dangers of modern gadgets.

In the first episode of the new series of Bringing Up Britain, Mariella is joined by Professor Tanya Byron, Professor Lydia Plowman, Julie Johnson, Helen King (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) and Professor Sonia Livingstone.


Listen to the clip

• What ideas are suggested to protect teenagers from danger?

Also on audioboo http://audioboo.fm/boos/969034-sexting-is-technology-endangering-teenagers





3) Match the sentences
Look at the exercise below
Match the beginnings and ends of the sentences. Listen again if you need to.



Printable worksheet here




4) Discuss

• Which of the above ideas do you agree / disagree with?

5) Write
Choose 1
1) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "New advances in technology are doing more harm than good to teenagers". Use specific reasons and examples to support your position. (IELTS - 250 words)


2) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "The internet is a danger to teenagers and acces to it should be strictly controlled". Use specific reasons and examples to support your position. (IELTS - 250 words)






6) More
Staying Safe Online - Exposed video
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/staying-safe-online-exposed-ceop-video.html

Should parents follow their children on facebook?
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/should-parents-follow-their-children-on.html

Does more technology mean more ommunication?
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/does-more-technology-mean-more.html

Prepositions - "Summer Bummer" by Bill Plympton

You are going to

• watch a short cartoon
• practise prepositions

1) Discuss
Look at the picture

• What's the weather like?
• Where is the man?
• What is he doing?
• What is he going to do?

2) Watch the cartoon

• What is the man thinking about?
• How does the shark get to the swimming pool?

Director: Bill Plympton
Producer: Desiree Stavracos
Editor: Desiree Stavracos
Production Designer: Lindsay Woods
Sound Designer: Weston Fonger
Music: Corey Jackson




3) Do the gap-fill
Look at these sentences
Put  the correct prepositions in the spaces.

Printable worksheet here




4) What can you remember?
Tell the story again. Don't look at the exercise. Can you remember all the prepositions?






More
Prepositions games

Hangman  http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/k/words.php?f=prepositions

Bilionaire
http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/ClassroomGames/Billionaire/Prepositions%20of%20Place%20Billionaire/index.html

Penalty shoot out
http://kidseslgames.com/grammar%20games/Prepositions/prepositions1.html

Prepositions of place  http://englishflashgames.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/prepositions-of-place-game.html

Find the mouse http://www.tcet.com/eaonline/FlashedESL/CatsMX.swf

Design a game

You are going to

• look at game instruction videos
• practise zero conditional, imperatives, language for explaining
• invent, design and make a game (inc. game rules)
• present and explain your game to others

1) Discuss
Think of some games (board games, computer games, word games, card games…)

• How do you play the game? (instructions, rules)
• What do you need to play the game? (dice, cards, pieces…)
• What do you have to do in the game? (answer questions, throw dice….)
• How do you win the game? (score points, win money…)

2) Watch Video 1 - How to play Monopoly

• Have you ever played Monopoly?
• How do you play it?
• What do you need to play it?

Watch and find out

3) Do the matching exercise. 
Put the instructions in order.

4) Watch Video 2 - How to play Scrabble

• Have you ever played Scrabble?
• How do you play it?
• What do you need to play it?

 Watch and find out

5) Do the gap-fill exercise. 
Fill in the gaps with the correct phrase.

Printable worksheets here



6) Grammar
Look at "How to play Scrabble" again

• Can you find any imperatives?
• Can you find any conditionals? What kind?
• What happens to the verb after "by"
• What words do you use to state a purpose?

7) Group activity
Design a game competition
In groups you are going to INVENT, DESIGN and MAKE a game.
It MUST be ORIGINAL (not a copy of an existing game)

• give it a NAME
• MAKE it (all the pieces, board, cards, dice etc)
• write some RULES and INSTRUCTIONS for it and then 
• DEMONSTRATE, EXPLAIN and SHOW how to play it to the rest of the class.
• Everyone votes for the best game
• Try and use some of the language you have seen in the lesson (imperatives, Zero Conditional, so that....)

GOOD LUCK and may the best team win!






More
Online Scrabble
http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/scrabbleGame.cfm

http://www.quadplex.com/

What's cooking? - 2. Strawberry jam / A full English breakfast

You are going to

• watch some food recipe videos
• practise the language of cooking
• practise sequencers and time expressions
• practise giving instructions
• do some gap-fill exercises and a food vocabulary crossword
• write a recipe

Discuss

• Do you like cooking?
• Do you know how to cook?
• What's your favourite recipe?
• What are the ingredients?
• How long does it take to prepare and cook?
• Where did you learn to cook it?
• Do you know how to make strawberry jam?
• Do you know how to make a full English breakfast?

List
Write a list of all the cooking words you can think of in 60 seconds

Starter
Watch the strawberry jam recipe

• How do you make strawberry jam?
• What are the ingredients?
• How many words from your list did the presenter use?

B) Watch again. 
Look at this gap-fill exercise and fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list

Main course
Watch "How to make a traditional full English breakfast"
Find out

• What are the ingredients?
• What utensils do you need?

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-traditional-full-english-breakfast

A) What words do we use to say when or in what order things happen?
eg After that, then... They are called sequencers. Can you think of any more?





B) Look at this gap-fill exercise and fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list

Write

Write a recipe of a food you know how to cook

• List the ingredients
• Write the instructions
• Use some of the sequencers, time expressions and verbs in the exercises

Dessert
Do the cooking crossword. 
Too easy? Try this more difficult crossword here

Printable crosswords here (Int) and here (U.Int)
Printable exercises here





More
Sequencers
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarintermediate/a/sequence.htm
Adverb Clauses with Time Expressions
http://esl.about.com/od/grammaradvanced/a/adverb_clauses.htm


The British breakfast
http://designerlessons.org/2012/07/04/esl-lesson-plan-a-full-english-breakfast/

British Food 
http://istudyabroad.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/exploring-british-food/


Activities
Esolcourses Food and Drink activities

Quiz-Busters - Food Quiz With Pronouns

BBC Lingo - Food and cooking


Recipes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

http://foodupload.com/text_photo_recipes


Don't eat too much!
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/what-is-weight-of-human-race.html

No more...

What's cooking? - 1. "Bubble and Squeak"

You are going to

• watch a food recipe video
• practise the language of cooking
• practise imperatives
• do a gap-fill exercise
• do a food vocabulary crossword
• write a recipe

1) Discuss

• Do you like cooking?
• Do you know how to cook?
• What's your favourite recipe?
• What are the ingredients?
• How long does it take to prepare and cook?
• Where did you learn to cook it?
• Do you know what "Bubble and Squeak" is?

2) List
A) Write a list of all the cooking words you can think of in 60 seconds

3) Watch "How to make Bubble and Squeak"

Find out

• What is "Bubble and Squeak"? 
• What are the ingredients?
• Does the presenter use any cooking words from your list?

.
Watch the video. 
Click on this link  http://video.about.com/britishfood/How-to-Make-Bubble-and-Squeak.htm and the video will open in a new tab.





4) Watch again
A) Look at the list of cooking words below.  Do you know all of them? Look up the words you don't know.
Watch the video again. How many of the words in the list do you hear? Put "Yes" or "No"









B) Look at this recipe and fill in the gaps with one of the expressions from the list

5) Write

Write a recipe of a food you know how to cook

• List the ingredients
• Write the instructions
• Use some of the verbs in the exercise

8) Do the vocabulary crossword

Printable exercise here
Printable crossword here

More

Now try this one
What's cooking? - 2. Strawberry jam / A full English breakfast  British Culture, Crossword, Differentiated Exercises, FCE, Food, IELTS, Imperatives, Instructions, Intermediate, Listening, Recipes, Sequencers, Time Expressions, Upper Intermediate 


Other Food Activities
Making a sandwich with Mr Bean

Esolcourses Food and Drink activities

Quiz-Busters - Food Quiz With Pronouns

BBC Lingo - Food and cooking

Recipes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

http://foodupload.com/text_photo_recipes

Tom And Jerry - "Feedin' The Kiddie"

You are going to 

• watch a Tom and Jerry cartoon
• practise food, colours and the present simple
• do some gap-fill exercises

1) Watch the cartoon

Look at the words. Watch the cartoon below. Can you see them in the cartoon?  
Watch and put "Yes" or "No"

Tom And Jerry Feedin The Kiddie Episode 107 (WatchCartoonOnline.Us) 

2) Can you remember the colours?

3) Look at the pictures. What can you see?

4) Summary. Write a word in the gaps

5) A, An or Some?

More

Printable worksheets are here

Food activities for young learners http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/foodTopic.htm

Pages for colouring http://www.tomandjerryonline.com/coloring.cfm