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Lesson plan 28: Would you rather …?

Posted by admin on November 24th, 2008
  • Would you rather live without the Internet or without a mobile phone?
  • Would you rather be able to fly or make yourself invisible?
  • Would you rather spend a month in prison or a year alone on a desert island?

This week’s teaching idea is a speaking activity in which students pair up and ask each other a series of questions like these. The activity is introduced with Simon and Garfunkels version of El Cóndor Pasa:

(The album version of the song can be heard here)

The pdf file below can be downloaded and contains the following:

  1. The lesson plan
  2. A series of Flash Images to teach key words from the song (see below)
  3. A song gap fill
  4. ‘Would you rather …?’ question sheet

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