Topics: General English - communication skills
Level: B1 and above
Skills: Speaking and Listening
Link to song: Bon Jovi - Misunderstood
(Warning! The video contains two scenes of adult nudity!)
Useful phrases for clarification: https://www.learn-english-today.com/vocabulary/expressions-clarifying-info.html
Aims:
To define the concept of misunderstanding
To learn about American rock band Bon Jovi
To watch a music video and work on the story
To listen to a song and focus on pronunciation: linking, elision, weak forms
To talk about past misunderstandings
To act out a situation in which people misunderstand each other
To work on emergent language
Use of language & lexis:
To use different tenses to talk about past and present experiences about misunderstandings
To learn / review the prefix mis- and word family and collocations: to misunderstand, to be misunderstood, (to have a) misunderstanding
To learn / review phrases to react to and clarify misunderstandings
To learn / review modal verbs in the past (should / would / could)
Optional: To learn / review second conditional
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