english-teacher

1. Click on the pic to listen to a BBC podcast about the real Peaky Blinders. Read more HERE. 

2. The Birmingham’s sloggers were just one of many street gangs. Learn more HERE.

1. Watch the clip and sum up the “story.” Give as many details as you can. Find some help HERE

2. What does Andrea’s job consist of? Read more HERE.

3. Click on the pic and do another reading comprehension exercise.

4. What do you want in a boss? Click on the pic and take the survey. Learn more HERE.

1. What is screen tourism? Why is it important?

2. Why is Game of Throne the best thing ever to come to Ireland? Read more HERE. 

3. Click on the pic to find out about the impact of screen tourism in Britain’s second city. Study the text and fill in a MIND MAP

4. Complete your mind map with general info about Birmingham and its best tourist sites. Learn more about the Brummie ACCENT.

Your project: Write a concept note on Irish heritage.

1. Watch the trailer and take notes. Say what the story is about (answer the 5WH & 1H questions). Learn MORE.

2. What do we learn about Jun Tzu’s ‘Troubles’ and dreams? Read more HERE.

3. What makes this movie both a universal story and a very Irish one?  

4. What do Catholics and Protestants have in common? Learn more HERE.

5. How are the people in Belfast feeling right now, after Brexit? Find out more HERE.

6. Pick out details about the history and significance of the  murals. Learn more HERE.

1. How to get results with an email. Read more HERE. Practise emailing HERE.

2. What’s the latest innovation in film? And the yet unresolved issue?

3. How can companies help you unplug? Read MORE.

1. Is this a feminist song? Explain why. 

2. What are real women made of?

3. What did the US women’s soccer players do? Read more HERE. 

Final project: Present and / or promote a brand or shop that sells healthy food. 

(Include the story of the brand, its values, and a description of an advert. Speak for 2’30.)

1. Find three reasons why this project is important. Pick out 3 health problems caused by poor nutrition. What is the Institute’s focus? Who can make a change? Read more HERE.

2. How can we help children to grow up healthy? Read more HERE.

3. Why has Markus campaigned for free school meals? Read more HERE.

4. Can brands and other actors really help improve our health? Read MORE.

5. Click on the pic to practice your listening skills. Read more HERE. Practise your grammar & more HERE.

Final project: 

Write an article to present the work of a political artist who used her or his art to denounce a witch hunt. Explain the artwork and the message behind it.

1. Click on the pick to learn more about the ‘We the People’ campaign.

2. What is street art for? Learn more about Shepard Fairey

3. What is the link between the posters by Fairey and this video? Read more HERE.

4. Learn more about the “second red scare” and then take the QUIZ. 

5. Do you know how to spot a witch? Build up your vocabulary HERE.

6. Here’s another street artist’s contribution against scapegoating. Read more HERE.

7. Click below to practise your grammar skills

YOUR  FINAL PROJECT: You take part in a YOUTH CLIMATE radio programme / podcast / debate about the ecological situation and challenges for humanity. Read more HERE. 

1. Youth climate conference debate: what can be achieved at COP26? Read MORE.

2. We are in knee-deep waters! What are the threats Tuvalu faces? Read MORE. 

3. What are the topic and tone of the documentary?

3. Can world leaders be held accountable?

4. What can be achieved? Read MORE. 

5. Click on the pick to practise your grammar!

Your final project (choose one):

a. Imagine an interview with a self-employed Amazon driver.

b. Make a review of the Ken Loach movie for your radio programme.

c. Make a presentation about Amazon. 

1. In what ways is the world of work changing today?

2. Take notes on the lifestory of both Bezos and his company.

3. What is the reality of being an Amazon agency worker?

4. Where does all the Amazon’s plastic waste go? Read more HERE.