Words in the News (2nd September 2015): Notting Hill Carnival
For vocabulary and exercises: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/witn/ep-150902
Transcript
One of the world's largest street music festivals has taken place in London.
Around sixty bands in colourful costumes took part in the Notting Hill Carnival. Thirty-eight sound systems entertained the crowds.
Revellers at the annual event donned raincoats and held umbrellas as west London was hit by downpours.
More than a million people are believed to have attended the event across its two days.
Vocabulary
costumes
clothes worn for a certain type of activity
sound systems
electrical equipment used to play music, recordings and announcements
revellers
people at a party or celebration
donned
put on (clothes)
downpours
heavy rain showers
Tagged under: ,อังกฤษ,English,native English speaker,,tutorial,masterclass,natural,English ,Inglé,news,elt,british,video,english,lesson planning,official,BBC,speak,lesson plan,conversational,language lesson,lesson,BBC masterclass,Official BBC,英語,British Broadcasting Corporation,bbc,ELT,Inglê,authentic english,native,learn,영어,الإنجليزية,English lesson,speaking native,vocabulary,learning,anh,teach,learning english,language
Find more lesson plans like this:
9th Grade English Vocabulary WordsClip makes it super easy to turn any public video into a formative assessment activity in your classroom.
Add multiple choice quizzes, questions and browse hundreds of approved, video lesson ideas for Clip
Make YouTube one of your teaching aids - Works perfectly with lesson micro-teaching plans
1. Students enter a simple code
2. You play the video
3. The students comment
4. You review and reflect
* Whiteboard required for teacher-paced activities
can do?
With four apps, each designed around existing classroom activities, Spiral gives you the power to do formative assessment with anything you teach.
Quickfire
Carry out a quickfire formative assessment to see what the whole class is thinking
Discuss
Create interactive presentations to spark creativity in class
Team Up
Student teams can create and share collaborative presentations from linked devices
Clip
Turn any public video into a live chat with questions and quizzes
Kathryn Laster
- GaFE Certified Trainer
@kklaster
Tried out the canvas response option on @SpiralEducation & it's so awesome! Add text or drawings AND annotate an image! #R10tech
Room 220 Math Stars
@3rdgradeBCE
Using @SpiralEducation in class for math review. Student approved! Thumbs up! Thanks.
Miss Ord
@ordmiss
Absolutely amazing collaboration from year 10 today. 100% engagement and constant smiles from all #lovetsla #spiral
Adam J. Stryker
@strykerstennis
Students show better Interpersonal Writing skills than Speaking via @SpiralEducation Great #data #langchat folks!
Dr Ayla Göl
@iladylayla
A good tool for supporting active #learning.
Brett Erenberg
@BrettErenberg
The Team Up app is unlike anything I have ever seen. You left NOTHING out! So impressed!