Class The following lessons are addressed to students of a secondary school.

Level B1 (pre-intermediate or intermediate, according to the European Framework)

Pre-requisites

Vocabulary:

Students know a few English general words related to geography and history.

Grammar:

- Passives

- Simple past

- Comparatives and superlatives

Objectives

Knowledge: - At the end of these series of lessons:

-Students will be more aware of the differences of the varieties of English in the world;

-Students will know a series of facts regarding Britain (geography, history, population, etc.)

Skills and know-how:- At the end of the lessons:

- Students will be able to make cultural inferences analysing texts and observing images

- Students will be able to fill-in charts

- Students will be able to answer to questions retrieving information from the text

- Students will be able to answer to non-retrieval and imaginative questions

- Students will be able to bring their culture and the British one into relation

Ability to learn:- During the lessons:

- Students will use and share their prior knowledge of the world and their language skills to deal with different textual features

- Students will be able to cooperate effectively in pairs or in group

- Students will be able to organise and use the materials they have been given to complete the different tasks

Teacher’s notes

The following material could be used in classes with a large number of pupils. In this case I would suggest a cooperative learning activity such as the jigsaw reading [E2] [I1]. This way the class could be divided into smaller groups to learn all about one specific cultural aspect (e.g. history or geography); then each group member could relate the rest of his/her group about what he/she has learnt.