Adam Wyett PRO
I am an ESL teacher based in Saint Etienne, France. I use Slides to share and present my presentations live while teaching group-classes in lo-tech environments.
Advanced |
Give it up
Warm-up | Phones and Technology
- What kind of phone do you have? How often do you upgrade? Would you like to upgrade at the moment?
- What apps do you have that you use a lot?
- What do you use your phone for apart from making calls?
- Do you use the internet more on your phone, a tablet, or a computer?
- Do you often have technical issues or get frustrated with technology?
Vocabulary | Collocations
Vocabulary | Phrasal Verbs
Vocabulary | Differentiating
Vocabulary | Adjectives + Prepositions, But are they true for you?
Pre-reading | Without a phone, you basically don't exist.
- If you'd made plans to meet friends one evening and discovered you'd left your phone at home, how might it affect your evening?
- Do you agree with the tite of the article?
Post-reading | Without a phone, you basically don't exist.
- How dependent is your work or social life on having a mobile phone? Would arrangements break down if you didn't have one?
- Do you consider yourself addicted to your phone? How often do you check messages?
- Have you ever had to spend a day or more without your phone, e.g. because it was lost or stolen, or because you had left it somewhere? How did you feel?
Grammar | Conditional Sentences
Which refer to present or future situations? Which to the past?
- They won't get a table [unless] they've booked.
- [if] it stops raining, I'm going to walk into town.
- if + present, future.
- Possible present or future situation
- How would you know [if] he were telling the truth?
- [if] we had a bit more time, we could go to the museum.
- if + past, would (/ could / might).
- hypothetical or improbable present or future situation
- I would have bought it [if] they'd had it in my size
- [If] you had been looking where you were going, you wouldn't have fallen over.
- if + past perfect, would have (/ could have / might have)
- hypothetical past situation
- If I had listened to your advice in the past, I wouldn't be in this situation now.
- It's possible to mix two types of conditionals to refer to both the past and the present.
Grammar | Conditional Sentences
- What kind of behaviour is each person addicted to?
- What effect might this addiction have on their daily life?
Listening | Hooked
- Do you know anyone who has any of these addictions? How does it affect their lives, and are they trying to do anythnig about it?
Listening | Hooked
- What is the difference between being addicted to or hooked on something, and being obsessed with something (or someone)?
- What's the meaning of the highlighted phrases?
Speaking |
Being Obsessed
Homework |
Writing the discursive essay
Advanced | Give it up
By Adam Wyett
