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Online shows performed by native-speaking students talking about teen issues. Students can learn the language in a fun way via multi-media resources. Teaching plans are provided.

Youth Speak II Episode 4 - Meeting foreigners (reported speech)Go to the video

Teaching Plan

Objectives

The Lesson ( 40mins)

Self-access learning

Before the lesson
Pre-viewing tasks
While-viewing tasks
Post-viewing tasks

Before the lesson

1-2 days before the lesson

1. Download and print the Target language and Words & Phrases .

2. Give out and tell class to check these before the lesson.

3. Download and print the dialogue. You will use this in the lesson.

Pre-viewing tasks

Time	Activities	Notes
3 min	Set up the projector and load the Youth Speak website. Make sure the audio is working! Put down the blinds, etc.
4 min	To check understanding of new Words & Phrases, ask these questions: 1. How do you say goodbye in Italian? (Ciao!) 2. Why is Korean culture popular in Hong Kong? 3. Are their any foreigners in our school? Where are they from? (e.g. NET teacher) 4. If there was an exchange student in our class, what would you do with them after school?	You could also ask students to think of new sentences with these words & phrases. Your school may have an exchange student. You could ask them to be a guest in your class.
1 min	If students have seen Youth Speak before, ask them about John. Is he a good boyfriend? Tell students Naz will meet a boy from Italy in this episode. Will he choose John or the Italian boy?	Some students may have seen the film already. Don't worry because they wouldn't have tried the following activities.

While-viewing tasks

Time	Activities	Notes
4 min	Let students enjoy the whole film without stopping.

Post-viewing tasks

Time

Activities

Notes

1 min

Ask "Did Naz make the right choice?"

Could have a class vote.

'Yes/No' questions in reported speech
(4 min)

4 min

1. Write 'Do you like John?' on the blackboard.
2. Write 'I asked her' below.
3. Ask a student to come and finish the sentence.
4. Explain the rules for reporting 'Yes/No' questions.
5. Tell students to read the Notes online at home.

Game–Chinese whispers (8 min)

8 min

1. Each row in the class is a team.
2. The student on the left must think of a 'Yes/No' question.
3. They whisper it to the student on their right and so on.
4. The last student must write the question as reported speech on the blackboard.
5. The first team to write a correct sentence gets 2 points.
Teams with a correct sentence get 1 point.
6. Swap so the student on the right starts.

Timing can be flexible.

Drag & Drop (5 min)

5 min

Go to the Youth Speak website to play this game.
Play the game with the whole class.
You put the mouse over each heart to see the line.

The answers are:
Naz: Where do you live in Hong Kong?
Sebastian: I stay with a host family in Tsuen Wan.
Naz: What are they like?
Sebastian: They're really kind. They have three young children.
Naz: Do you play with them?
Sebastian: Yes, but the youngest boy is really shy. He didn't talk when he met me.
Naz: What did you do?
Sebastian: I asked his mother if he could talk!
Naz: Did she get him to talk?
Sebastian: Yes! He asked me if I could buy him chocolate.
Naz: Kids are really funny sometimes.

You could ask students to move the mouse to get them more involved.

Disappearing dialogue (10 min)

10 min

1. Click here to put the dialogue on the screen.
2. Let students practice the dialogue in pairs.
3. Press the space bar.
Some of the dialogue will disappear.

Students have to remember the missing parts.
4. Press the space bar again and more of the dialogue is missing. Again, students must repeat the dialogue.
5. Continue clicking and practicing until there are no words.
6. Ask pairs who can remember the whole dialogue to say it in front of the whole class.

This activity allows students to eventually say a dialogue without reading it.

Last updated on 16 May 2005