lifestyles

'Staycations' - Holidays at home

Jo Budden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:11:05 +0000

Age range: 12 - adult

Theme: Holidays
Lexical area: Holidays

Mobile phones

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:35:57 +0000

Theme: Mobile phones
Lexical area: Phone language

Toys, fads and fashion

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:41:16 +0000

Theme: Toys, fashions and consumerism
Lexical area: Toys, definitions
Cross curricular links: History, social science, economics.

A Generation of couch potatoes

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:39:44 +0000

Theme: Health, fitness, lifestyles
Lexical area: Sports, recreational activities, frequency adverbs
Cross curricular links: Personal and social education

Pocket money and pester power

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:38:56 +0000

Theme: Young people’s spending habits in the UK, teenagers working.
Lexical area: Money, earnings, saving, consumer goods, quantity and numbers.
Cross curricular links: Citizenship, economics, social science.

Game on

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:38:24 +0000

Theme: Computer games/gaming.
Lexical area: computers, types of game, numbers
Cross curricular links: social science, business studies, personal and social education, media studies.

Reading house

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:37:46 +0000

Theme: Buildings and lifestyles, personal taste.
Lexical area: Buildings, features of buildings and decoration
Cross curricular links: History, Geography, Art.

A fizzy drink and a bag of crisps

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:37:07 +0000

Theme: Talking about healthy eating and eating habits. The poor dietary habits of children in the UK and recent reports on child obesity.
Lexical area: food and drink, nutritional content of foods
Cross curricular links: Personal and social education, biology and the science of nutrition.

Reality TV

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:36:32 +0000

Theme: Reality TV programmes, the types of TV programmes in the UK, Interactive TV
Lexical area:Television, Types of programmes, Tastes
Cross curricular links: Media Studies

Computer Gaming

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:35:21 +0000

Theme: Computer games and their effects on young people
Lexical area: Computer language
Cross curricular links: Information technology, social studies, media studies