Cambridge Stage 6 - ESL - Unit 8 - Entertainment - Full Lesson + Activities

A full lesson complete with activities and teaching the key concepts from Cambridge stage 6 - ESL - Unit 8 - Entertainment.

Success Criteria:
•I can name and identify different activities done for entertainment.
•I can use past participle adjectives to describe feelings and qualities.
•I can describe the negatives of on-screen entertainment.
•I can describe the history of films.
•I can use the past simple passive to talk about events
•I can create a timeline.

The presentation includes:

√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Starter activity designed to engage
√ Two vocabulary - definition match activities
√ Past participle adjectives grammar activity
√ Speaking games and discussion tasks about on and off-screen time
√ Information slides - how to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words
√ Reading task - Too Much Screen Time?
√ Fact discussion - addiction to screens
√ Time line task looking at history of film
√ Past simple passive - what is it + how and why do we use it?
√ Past simple passive grammar consolidation activities (differentiated)
√ Extension tasks and writing tasks
√ Independent research activity - the history of an invention
√ Vocab anagrams activity - alternative words for ‘said’
√ Plenary task
√ All answer slides

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.