In this post, EFL Collective shares with you a viewing lesson on Mass Media in Britain for pre-intermediate and intermediate EFL/ESL classes. Through this lesson, your learners will get acquainted with a number of vocabulary items related to media such as commercials, tabloids, satellites, terrestrial channels, broadsheets, etc.
Video Title: Media in Britain
Level: Pre-intermediate/Intermediate
The length of the video: 04:40 mins
Worksheet: Download it from here.
Suggested Procedure:
Pre-viewing Phase:
- You can have students form guesses about the video. This way you can pre-teach some necessary vocabulary items.
While viewing Phase:
- First viewing (preferably subtitles on): Students check their guesses.
- Second viewing: Students do exercises 2 and 3.
Post-viewing Phase:
Writing: Students use the information they learn from the video and worksheet to write a paragraph about media in Britain. The students can also draw similarities and differences between their countries' media and Britain's.