Phrasal Verb Monster

Hi everyone!

Today I'm sharing a brand new activity I haven't even used with my own students on phrasal verbs. I was trying to explain the use of causative verbs with this trailer, and found out that it was a great example of the many phrasal verbs people use when they speak; in my experience, students are a bit afraid of phrasal verbs. That's why I generated this activity for students to match thirteen phrasal verbs with their definitions and apply them to a situation. The movie trailer is very intense and it is my intention to use that emotional component to fix these thirteen phrasal verbs! Let me know if it actually works ;)

NB: I developed this activity to be used with adults or young adults given the complexity of the topic and the violence shown.

Here's the task:




Here's the trailer:

Here's the worksheet.

Regarding the material requested by some people, I promise I will be sending you the info this week.

As usual, I await your comments.

Stay tuned,
Claudio

Shopping, likes and dislikes

Hey everyone!

I must confess I'm really happy to see that the blog is about to reach 90 thousand visits. Thanks to all the people who take the time to send feedback and comments, it has been the blog´s main objective since the beginning.

Today I'm sharing an activity to work on opinions, likes and dislikes, gambits and adjectives. I hope you find it useful.

Here you have the videos:

And here's the worksheet.

I look forward to hearing from you, as usual.

Stay tuned,

Claudio

Unexpected events

Hi everyone,

The posts are back! I missed it already.

Today I'm sharing a lesson plan I used with my students, for them to discover, practice and apply the use of simple past and past continuous. We were talking about vacations and cultural differences, and I decided to use two scenes from Outsourced and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

As usual, I await your feedback.

Here's the first video:

Here's the second video:

Here's the worksheet.

Stay tuned,

Claudio