G3 Newsround & speaking

Welcome everyone!

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This lesson contains 20 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

Lesson duration is: 45 min

Items in this lesson

Welcome everyone!

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Lesson plan

Riddles
Homework check
Newsround listening practice
Speaking practice

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Learning Goals

You can write down information from an English video

You can successfully talk about a familiar topic with a classmate

You've practiced your reasoning skills

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Riddle 1

What has six faces but does not wear makeup, and twenty-one eyes but cannot see?

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Answer

a dice

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Riddle 2

What word contains 26 letters but only has three syllables?

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Answer

the alphabet

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Riddle 3

Poor people have it, rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?

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Answer

Nothing

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Riddle 4

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it, can neither feel nor see it. What is it?

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Answer

A coffin

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Homework check

Your homework was to listen to one podcast episode and write a short summary about it.

Find a classmate who listened to a different podcast and tell each other about what you listened to (in English of course).

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BBC newsround

Make notes while listening to this short BBC newshound fragment. There will be open questions afterwards.

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www.bbc.co.uk

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What was said about flooding in the fragment?

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What was said about the titanic?

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What happy news was shared?

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Speaking practice

On the subject of happy news, take a moment to think of the highlight of your last week or something great that happened to you recently.

Team up with your neighbor and discuss who will be speaker 1 and who will be speaker 2.

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Speaking practice

Speaker 1, take 1 minute to tell speaker 2 about your happy news.

After 1 minute, we'll switch roles and speaker 2 will have 1 minute to tell speaker 1 about their news.

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Time left?

Please go to Learnbeat and continue working on the Grammar basic assignments.

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