Which is noisier, firing a gun or firing an employee? What about typing a letter or typing an email? (Perhaps your students aren’t old enough to remember what a typewriter is!) In this activity - see pdf below - learners choose the noisiest collocations before identifying sounds in this this very clever advert:
- Language level: Beginner / Elementary (A1, A2)
- Learner type: Young learners; Teens; Adults
- Time: 30 minutes
- Main activity: Matching collocations
- Topic: Sound in films
- Language: Verb/object collocations; The -ing form
- Materials: Video clip; Worksheets
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There are actually two adverts in the ‘Every sound tells a story’ theme. The pair could be used in combination but a warning: the second ad contains a rude part.