British Study Centres Blog » Lessons http://www.british-study.com/blog Blog of the English language school, British Study Centres Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:47:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 New Class Video: Radio Advertisements – Speaking And Listening Lesson http://www.british-study.com/blog/2009/12/new-class-video-radio-advertisements-speaking-and-listening-lesson/ http://www.british-study.com/blog/2009/12/new-class-video-radio-advertisements-speaking-and-listening-lesson/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:58:07 +0000 Duncan http://www.british-study.com/blog/?p=1018 Here we have a special new video from the teachers and students at British Study Centres in London! The pre-intermediate class is creating radio advertisements for an imaginary product.

They seem to be having a lot of fun planning and organizing the ‘ads’!

At the start of the video Dan, their teacher, explains the purpose of the lesson, which is to practise speaking and pronunciation. In addition, students plan and organize the radio advertisement together and have to negotiate with each other.

The video shows the students working together and, of course, the final advertisements. It also shows the use of ’sound stages’, which is a way of improving their speaking.

Thanks to the teacher, Dan Atherton, and the students for their excellent advertisements! More videos to come soon!

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We have just received some new classroom videos of students in London! In these videos students are reading and filming the news for TV. Their teacher, Dan Atherton, has given them several pictures and they needed to come up with news stories for each of them. Then they wrote the script and finally presented it while being filmed. Finally they presented it a second time to improve on any mistakes.

It is a completely student led exercise and so builds confidence- as you can see the video is very well done! The point for the lower-intermediate level students is to practice organizing and negotiating in English. According to Dan everyone enjoyed it and found it useful.

Thanks to the presenter, Sef (France) and reporters Kristina (Russia), Chong Hoong (Korea), Andres (Colombia) and Choy (Korea) for the performance!

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