My trial lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo k, g, t
• Leerjaar 2

English lesson:

Social media

Text

Made by: Fatih and Marike

Content

- Learning goals

- Reading a text

- Video

- Writing exercises

- Recap

Learning goals

- After this lesson, I can write 5 new words and explain their meaning.

- In this lesson, you will be able to construct a review for a social media app.

- The students can mention their interest about social media by completing the interview exercise.

 

Musical.ly star Baby Ariel

What do you know about Baby Ariel?

What do you know about Musical.ly?

A social media celebrity

Open up page 61.

You have around 5 minutes to read the text.

Make exercise C on page 62

Discuss the answers after.

(Max 20 minutes)

Fill-the-gap

Use the words to fill in the gaps in the text that best fit. You can only use the words once.

changes – experience – confused – pressure – social media – features – merge – represent – rights – company

In 2017 the …....... Bytedance offered Musical.ly to buy it for 1 billion US dollars. They knew that Musical.ly would blow up and become big like other …....... apps. It is normal that big companies buy the …....... of smaller businesses. Instagram was also bought by a huge business which was Facebook. Because these huge businesses own so much on the internet, they often even …....... them to accept their offer or else they will make it harder for them to …....... themselves by cutting off their advertisement on their own apps. Musical.ly eventually accepted the offer and took the 1 billion US dollars. Later in 2018 Bytedance decided to …....... Musical.ly with TikTok. Many new …....... were added to customize your videos. The old Musical.ly users had a lot more …....... , so they quickly became very famous on TikTok. Over the years TikTok became very popular and had many …....... , especially on the privacy issues. The users got very …....... with all the drama going on with TikTok selling your private information but this was quickly dealt with. TikTok went through a lot of trouble but people still love it and that shows it with their 689 million users. 

In this exercise, you will answer a few interview questions like Baby Ariel in the text.
1. Hello, what is your name?
2. Do you use any social media apps? Which ones?
3. Do a lot of your friends use social media?
5. Do you have a big following or do you use it only for friends to see?
6. Are you familiar with musical.ly/tiktok? If so, have you ever made a video yourself?
7. Do you think social media is a good or a bad influence on teens? Why?

Review of a social media app.
In this exercise, you will be writing a review for a social media app. This can be any app, but make sure to write down at the start which one.
Ask yourself: what do you like about this app? Is there anything you would like to change and if so, what? Do you have a positive or a negative opinion about this app?
You must at least write 100 words and a maximum of 250 words.
The app I am reviewing is:…..................

Recap

Think back on what do did in this lesson

- Baby Ariel

- Musical.ly

- Fill-the-gap

- Interview

- Letter

- After this lesson, I can write 5 new words and explain their meaning.

- In this lesson, you will be able to construct a review for a social media app. 

- The students can mention their interest about social media by completing the interview exercise. 

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