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Lesson on Social Media Target Audience: small groups/ one on one/ adults Skills: Small talk, expressing opinions, questions and answer format, modals Procedure 1. Bring up the topic of social media , either by asking your client/student if he or she has a facebook or twitter account, of if someone in their family has one. 2. Introduce the term: social media and discuss its meaning. Ask your student to create a definition based on their understanding of the words social and media . Then present them with the definition of social media, see student worksheets below 3. Show the word cloud/ brainstorm ( worksheet below) and have student choose words and create sentences. Identify the parts of speech, verbs, nouns as well as logos /names of companies. 4. Talk about one type of social media that they are most familiar with . 5. Focus on function of language giving and asking for opinions. Have your student review the different language expressions in the worksheet and do a self evaluation. Challenge them to try to use new expressions during the session on social media. Use the card game to face the challenge ( See worksheet with cards) 6. Print the cards on thick colored paper and cut them out ( Set of laminated cards can be ordered from http://www.coacheng.co.il) 7. Play the game with your client , taking cards in turn and continue the sentences from the prompt on the card in the context of social media. The cards can be reused for any topic. Focus on intonation, strength of opinion. Extension exercises, refer to online resources on http://www.coacheng.co.il/socialmedia
discuss social media stories such as twitter in the news ( CNN /Oprah /Kutcher) discuss social media as an opportunity to earn money!Click Here! explore some social media sites (twitter/skype/facebook) together and language used regarding the different activities. open a social media account with your client to familiarize them with the current lingo discuss how new words enter English language with the new technology. Example: Google is now a verb! Google it or google me for more information about my background
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Definition of Social Media from Wikipedia;
Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologue (one to many) into dialog (many to many) and is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. Social media has become extremely popular because it allows people to connect in the online world to form relationships for personal and business. Businesses also refer to social media as usergenerated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).
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Look at the word cloud below and generate sentences using the words in context
Source: Creation of Image by Karen Eini on http://www.wordle.net
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Language for expressing your opinion In my opinion Social Media is…. I feel /believe/ … From my point of view… From the point of view of safety… From a social point of view…
My impression of Facebook is…….
How often do you How often do you use these English terms? say it?( 0 -3) TIP! Try to use the ones you marked 0-1 more often! to my mind: to emphasise that this is your opinion reckon: usually to express an opinion about what Is likely to feel: to express a strong personal opinion if you ask me: to express an opinion that may be critical to be honest (with you): to express a critical opinion without being rude as far as I'm concerned: to express an opinion that may be different from others'
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In my opinion
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To my mind
As far as I'm concerned
I reckon that
From the point of view of safety
My impression of
To be honest with you
What's your opinion about
From a social point of view
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What's your impression of
Do you agree with
I disagree with
I think they should
I think they could
Do you reckon that