This comprehensive lesson, spanning a minimum of two hours, aims to develop students’ listening, research, critical thinking, and communication skills concerning cultural differences. The lesson is structured as follows: Introduction to Cultural Differences: Students reflect on their own experiences to initiate understanding. Pair Conversations: Engage in guided discussions on predetermined conversation topics. Video Analysis and Inference: Students watch videos and respond to questions, fostering analytical thinking and comprehension. Group Discussion: Further exploration through another video, prompting group discussions to deepen understanding. Debate Preparation: Students form groups and receive debate topics, preparing arguments collaboratively. Debate: Group leaders will debate and students will vote for the argument that won Self-Recording: Culmination with students individually recording responses to a series of questions, reinforcing comprehension and articulation skills. This lesson offers a holistic approach to exploring and engaging with cultural diversity through speaking and listening

This lesson focuses on the theoretical framework of media, audience and industry, in relation to Black Widow. There are two powerpoints. This lesson is planned for a duration of 4-6 hours and covers the following: ownership diversification production marketing circulation distribution audience reach

This resource comprises of a 80 minutes double lesson focusing on the analysis and evaluation of media language as well as the influence of social and cultural contexts. The lesson includes the following: DO NOW starter activity on research of TLC and the term intertextuality Explanation of Intertextuality and some examples Background contexts on TLC Video information on HIV/AIDS in the 90s and information on how the music video is influenced by this context Watch the video Video information on Street violence in the 90s and information on how the music video is influenced by this context Intertextuality in the music video Explanation of the term iconography Group discussion on how romance/love iconography is used in the music video Lyrics illustration Music codes and conventions and how it’s used in the music video Media language analysis independent work Media language analysis answers and self mark Media language analysis group work Exam question sentence starters for less able