Inside Out e-lesson
Week starting: 21st April 2008
1. David Beckham This week’s lesson focuses on one of the world’s most famous footballers, David Beckham. He was born on 2nd May 1975. Level Pre-intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level A2-B1 and above) How to use the lesson 1. Ask your students what they know about David Beckham, with regard to both his football career and his high-profile life off the pitch. Why do they think he is so famous? 2. Give each student in the class a copy of Worksheet A and give them five to ten minutes to read through it, encouraging them to look up new vocabulary. Tell the students it is important that they try to remember as much of the information as possible. 3. Tell the students they are going to prepare a test for each other. Then divide the class into two teams, A and B. 4. Give each member of each team the corresponding half of Worksheet B. Explain that each team has to work together in order to formulate the questions that produce the answers given, based on the text on Worksheet A. Note that it is possible for there to be slight variations of each question. 5. When both teams have finished preparing their questions, ask them to turn over Worksheet A and the glossary so that they can’t see them. 6. The two teams now take it in turns to ask and answer the questions. Encourage the teams to confer before answering, but make it clear that once they have given their answer they cannot change it. You should only accept answers given in correct English. Keep the score on the board; the team with the most correct answers at the end of the quiz wins. 7. Divide the students into pairs, A and B, and hand out the corresponding halves of Worksheet C so that Student A’s grid has the words that Student B’s grid is missing and vice versa.. Tell them not to show their grids to their partners. Then tell students to take it in turns to describe the words one by one, so that their partners can guess what they are, and then fill in the gaps. You could let them describe the words for as long as necessary, or as a fun alternative you could impose a time limit for the description of each word. You might want to give students time to prepare their descriptions before starting, pointing out that all the missing words feature in the text on Worksheet A. 8. Check answers in open class.
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Inside Out Answers: Exercise 1 (note that variations may be possible for some questions) Team A 1. When was David Beckham born? 2. Where did he go after he left Manchester United? 3. What colour are Manchester United’s shirts? 4. When did he and Victoria get married? 5. What happened when he was playing for England against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup? 6. What was/is Victoria’s job? 7. What is his nickname? 8. What team to his parents support? 9. How many children do he and Victoria have? Team B 1. Where was David Beckham born? 2. What is the name of his wife? / What’s his wife’s name? 3. How old was he when he started playing regularly for Manchester United’s first team? 4. Why did he leave Manchester United? 5. What is Victoria’s nickname? 6. Where do he and Victoria live now? 7. Why was he sent off when he was playing for England against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup? 8. Where is Manchester? 9. How many daughters do he and Victoria have? Exercise 2 1. manager 2. captain 3. advertising 4. footballer 5. gossip 6. cover 7. salary 8. standard 9. successful 10. accurately When the grid has been completed correctly, midfielder will read from top to bottom. 2. Related Websites Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6900000/newsid_6902500/6902531.stm A BBC Newsround forum (2007) asking ‘What do you think about Beckham’s move to America?’. Challenging for pre-intermediate level. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4280000/newsid_4281400/4281403.stm Also from Newsround, a piece from 2005 on the birth of the Beckhams’ third child, plus links on the right-hand side of the page to other Beckham-related stories. Challenging for pre-intermediate level. http://www.davidbeckham.com/ The official David Beckham website. Intermediate level and above. This page has been downloaded from www.insideout.net. It is photocopiable, but all copies must be complete pages. Copyright © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008.