The Intern (visualized)
+ extra activities for the science of fear and influencers
1 The Intern (listening and speaking)
This is an activity I’ve been working at for a couple weeks. I originally did this as a reading comprehension exercise. However, I decided to create a video listening/speaking activity for it. I used it in class today, and it was great. There is one thing, though. It’s essential to explain to the students that the pictures run in a chronological order in the video and on the worksheet. They need to use the video with the worksheet. And the pictures are cues for the gap fill vocabulary. Once the students understood this, they were away. Most of them watched the video on their mobile phones. Another thing, this topic is a great exercise for university students as it’s so relevant to their lives. And also, this type of exercise can be used with quite a wide range of abilities, as the pictures in the video cue the vocabulary (ie. weaker students don’t get lost).
2 The Science of Fear
It’s great to keep developing some exercises, especially when the vocabulary is difficult and interesting. So, to recycle the vocabulary of fear I created a vocabulary/ picture matching exercise. It helps clarify the meanings of fear-related vocabulary. Also, this is a good cause/effect topic. And, I was teaching it to general English language students, and realized it was ideal for medical sciences students too.
3 The Influencer brainstorm
I think there are so many possibilities for teaching about influencers. This was the simplest brainstorm exercise that became quite epic. And it could lead on to any number of other exercises about influencers.
