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you are called ‘April Fool.’

Worksheets from the British Council site provide acomplete lesson package around the theme of AprilFool’s Day with a detailed reading/listening text.

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/08/070829 _mandela.shtml 

Reading

R1 Respond to informationpresented in a variety of forms

R2 Select and organisematerial relevant to specificpurposes

Reading: London unveils Mandelastatue

Students are able to recogniseand use full stops and capital

letters for sentence boundariesand proper names.

Passive structures:Students can recognise and usethe passive form in differenttenses.

Reading a newspaper report:London unveils Mandela statue.

Students read a newspaper report about the unveilingof a statue to Nelson Mandela, the former South

African president and campaigner against apartheid.Teachers can use their own comprehension questionsfor the text.There are some good examples of passive structures(‘is being unveiled’ etc) in different tenses, whichstudents can discuss and explore including thepassive structure in different tense forms.

There are clear examples of place names, titles and

people’s names e.g. The Mayor of London, KenLivingstone. Students can highlight and discuss theuse capital letters and full stops with a highlighter pen.Attention can be drawn to the way other expressionsdo not use capital letters and why e.g. anti-apartheidcampaigners (they refer to a general group and not aspecific title). Extension work can be carried out onpunctuation issues. Lower attaining students can workon becoming clearly confident with full stops and

capital letters. More able students can work on morechallenging issues such as the apostrophe.Removing specific elements of punctuation from a textfor students to replace is a good way to do this.

The report provides a glossary of vocabulary and is agood lead-in to discussing people who, throughouthistory, have been famous for their bravery andhumanitarian work.

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paragraph development in general, possibly includingreordering jumbled paragraphs or writing paragraphs

form a given topic sentence. Higher attaining studentscan work on more complex examples of paragraphreordering or writing paragraphs from a given topicsentence.

Listening

L1 Understand and respond toinformation presented in a

variety of forms

L2 Recognise, understand anddistinguish between facts,ideas and opinion

L3 Select and organisematerial relevant to specificpurposes

L4 Infer information from texts(Extended only)

Listening strategies:

Students are able to listen for andidentify the type of vocabulary and

structures they might expect tohear in a complex radiointerviews.

Students recognise attitudes,identify opinions and facts, andcan infer meaning from text.

Listening: The Price of GreatnessStudents listen to a radio interview about the qualitieswhich exceptional people often have; people who havegone down in history for their achievements.

Before students listen, they can discuss and makenotes about what they think a truly exceptional personwould be like. They may find this easier if they think ofa specific person, such as a scientist, artist orpolitician, in history. They can speculate on their homebackground, speculate on their education, what mighthave been easy or difficult for them in their friendships,work, etc.

Students can speculate on what might have got thisperson interested in the thing they devoted their life to.Before they listen, students could discuss difficultvocabulary they will hear, such as ‘genetic’, ‘innerdrive’, ‘excel’, ‘mediocre’ etc. to make sure theyunderstand meanings.

Students will need to listen several times, as the

content of the interview is quite dense with someinferential material. It helps if, for each listening,students are given specific details to listen for andthese are checked after listening at each stage.Difficult parts of the recording can be paused and re-played.

After listening, students can express their views on theinformation on the recording, including the fact that

famous people often have unhappy lives. According to

Success InternationalEnglish Skills for IGCSE

Georgian Press Unit 1page 14–15

ISBN: 9781873630440

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the speaker, 95% of achievement is due to hard work.Students can discuss their opinions on this ‘fact.’