Just a quick one this week because I’m on holiday and I think everyone else is too. I found this clip of a man alone in a stationery cupboard at work. Whoever made it has made the mistake of adding sound so I suggest playing it without audio to make it more realistic.
How to use it:
- Pause the clip after about 3 seconds and use it to teach key vocabulay (hidden camera, stationery cupboard [not to be confused with stationEry!], office employee, photocopier, etc).
- Ask your students what they think the man is going to do (write ideas on the board).
- Once students see the man sitting on the photocopier, ask them what they think happens next (write ideas on the board).
- Ask half of the class to take the role of the employee’s boss. Get them to write a letter to the employee to say that his actions have cost him his job.
- Get the other half of the class (the imaginative ones) to write a letter to the man’s boss from his lawyer. They should outline that the man had a perfectly acceptable reasons for his actions and outline what these were.
- Finally ask your students to write a list of rules to be put on the stationery cupboard wall.
Yup. Liked the video. Almost as good as the exploding whale - hilarious! Anyway, shouldn’t it be stationEry not stationAry cupboard. E as in Envelope. In fact, I can’t think of a stationery item that begins with an A, can you? (Adhesive doesn’t count, who’d ask for the adhesive!?). So it should be pretty foolproof! Just so you don’t think I’m a nitpicking twat I’d also like to say I like your website - it’s lively, interesting and quirky. Two essential classroom ingredients. But - not being nitpicking, honest! - I just couldn’t resist pointing out that wee slip!
Left by David Caulton on May 20th, 2009