2025-01-13

Upper Secondary B2.1

Lesson Aims

  • Demonstrate an understanding of how music can break down cultural barriers.
  • Examine loanwords that have been introduced into English from other languages.
  • Analyse unknown words to work out their meaning.
  • Talk about how music can help bring together people from different backgrounds.

Material

  • new magazine pages 1-3

Plan

  • warmer
    • What kinds of things connect people to different cultures?
    • Discuss origins of instruments
    • Do you think music connects people?
  • pre-teach
    • Preconceived ideas – Beliefs or opinions formed without sufficient knowledge or understanding.
    • Cutting-edge – Extremely modern and advanced; at the forefront of progress (e.g., “cutting-edge musical fusions”).
    • Immersed – Deeply involved or engaged in an environment or activity (e.g., “immersed in new and ancient traditions”).
    • Collaborate – To work together with others on a shared activity or project.
    • Profound – Very great or intense, especially in terms of influence or effect (e.g., “had a profound influence on the music”).
    • Fusions – The process or result of joining two or more things together to form something new (e.g., “musical fusions”).
  • magazine work

Homework

  • learning hub

Incidental Language

  • flagship
  • collaborate
  • residence