Topics: General English - memories - nostalgia - senses
Level: B2 and above
Skills: Listening and Speaking
Link to Proust’s references: The Proust Effect
Link to song video: Memories (2021, Maroon 5)
Link to article: The Power of Reminiscence
Link to graphic facilitation/sketchnoting: Emily Bryson ELT
Aims:
To talk about past experiences and memories
To talk about memory triggers
To read some excerpts from Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”
To draw some interpretations and compare/contrast drawings
To connect Proust’s work with a contemporary song
To listen for gist and for detail
To practice sketchnoting
To analyze rhyme, literary devices (repetition, metaphor, comparison) and poetic license
To express opinion and reaction towards the topic
To reflect on childhood memories
To write a poem/song lyrics about memories (optional)
To read an article about positive reminiscence (optional)
Use of language & lexis:
To use past tenses to talk about memories
To review “used to” and “would” to describe routines and habits in the past
To learn / review “wish” + simple past / past perfect
To learn / review vocabulary related to memories (to trigger, to evoke, to remember, to remind, to bring back, to take back, etc...)
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