iUT:1 ME
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Key principles to achieve the level C1 or higher
Take your English to level B1 and beyond
This animation slowly reveals the three key prinicpals : COMPLEX phrases, NUANCED phrases and ORGANISED phrases.
The teacher can slowly reveal the three strategies, students can suggest modifications to the simple phrases on the screen.
Only after the presentation does the teacher distribute the photocopy (below) of the document.
A second document offers a simple text school uniform that students can turn into a B1 text themselves using the three strategies.
This document is available as a printed photocopy here
Further B1 sources are available here
Professions & Qualities Bingo (P&Q Bingo)
Let's take a look at some trades and professions
Every student in the room gets a copy of this sheet.
Students sit in groups of four. Each group is a team.
They work together but each individual student has a sheet to record their ideas & vocabulary.
And now let's look at the qualities required by each profession
Gameplay
The teacher projects this "randomiser wheel" which will deliver, one after the other, a series of qualities and competencies to be associated with the professions on the sheet.
Modify wheel | Show Wheel in ful screen
The teacher projects the wheel and announces a random quality or competence.
Students in their teams try and match the quality to one of the professions on their grid and they write it in the profession's square.
(1 quality can associated with a maximum of 2 professions and therefore written in a maximum of 2 squares)
Students' sheets start to look like this :
When students have two qualities for one of the professions they encircle the profession.
When a team has encircled 3 professions in a vertical line or 4 professions in a horizontal line they shout 'Bingo' and teacher marks the points on the board.
1 horizontal line : 4 points (for four squares) 1 vertical line : 3 points (for three squares)
They whole class keeps playing until a team fills there grid entirely. If time allows, the teacher can continue play to find out the first, second and third teams to complete their grid.
Professions and qualities complex phrases
This sheet, projected on the whiteboard will help students consolidate the vocabulary abour professions, qualities and skills with complex, justified phrases.
* These phrases are all gender neutral : no 'he' or 'she' is used in order to confirm gender stereotypes
and 'they' replaces the singular subject pronoun as is required of modern, gender neutral discourse in anglo-saxon countries.
About my internship
This "brainstorm" diagram is designed to help students build a written report on their internships and work placements.
CV Model
ResumeLe CV à gauche (le plus grand) contient les consignes et les astuces.
3 autres modèles (sans consignes) sont proposés.
Consignes :
Ouvrir le CV qui vous plait (cliquez sur la flèche en haut à droite du CV) et le copier/coller dans un document Libre Office Writer pour le personnaliser.
ResumeResumeInterview Preparation
(Question prepared by final year students)
Hexagons Worksheet for connecting ideas at Level B1
Write your name in the central hexagon
A LIGHTBULB idea (My best, differentiating quality)
Two strengths ("pros" / for / positives / good stuff)
Two weaknesses (cons, against, negatives, bad stuff)
A BRICK idea (My solid, foundation idea)
Choose 5 intersections
Choose a connecting word to connect pairs of ideas
...is bigger than... ...depends on... ...is less important than...
...was caused by... ...lead to... ....is to blame for...
Compose phrases to connect the ideas