After the test we'll start a new unit and we'll have to prepare the DEBATE which is, remember, the SPEAKING component of the test. It means we'll have to prepare it VERY WELL.
Here are the 3 topics - the BIG QUESTIONS:
1 - Do the media, and advertising, convey a stereotyped/negative image of young people?
Research hints: newspaper/magazine clippings(news reports ans ads), TV commercials, interviews
2 - Is English 'disappearing' Is it losing its status as a Lingua Franca?
Research hints: Englishes vs Standard English; next economic superpower ... China? Interviews
3- Will the written press eventually disappear? What next?
Research hints: technologies -- YouTube, kindle, blogging, twittering... Interviews
As you see these topics make the link to our topics (Young People, Communication, the Media, Language and Culture, Techonologies).
Take next week to find out more about these subjects. Find texts, images that we may read and study in class. Find out what people think about this (young people - 15-30 AND/OR older people - 35-55 AND/OR even older people... > 55). Carry out the interviews in ENGLISH, so just pick people who can speak English. You wouldn't want to translate...
Enjoy. This will be a very proper debate.... (if you know what I mean:-)
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