If you are an IB English B teacher looking for ready-made lessons covering writing skills, workbooks providing step-by-step approaches to writing text types, or a great resource pack to teach a novel and prepare your students for the IO - then you have come to the right place. Created by an award-winning writer and experienced English B teacher, these resources are just what you are looking for!
If you are an IB English B teacher looking for ready-made lessons covering writing skills, workbooks providing step-by-step approaches to writing text types, or a great resource pack to teach a novel and prepare your students for the IO - then you have come to the right place. Created by an award-winning writer and experienced English B teacher, these resources are just what you are looking for!
This is the mega bundle of my SKILLS SUPPORT LESSONS PACK containing all of these engaging lessons:
How to Hook Your Reader (3 lessons)
How to Persuade Your Reader (2 lessons)
How to Write a Contextual Intro Paragraph (1 lesson)
Active and Passive Voice (1 lesson)
Formal and Informal Writing (2 lessons)
Direct and Reported Speech (1 lesson)
Sentence Variety (1+ Lesson)
Speak Circles (1 lesson)
Harkness Discussions (3 lessons)
Year 12 Introduction to IB Skills (3 lessons)
18 x SKILLS SUPPORT LESSONS
Ready-to-run, engaging lessons focusing on specific skills your students need for effective reading, writing, speaking and listening.
With topics that include Harkness Discussions, Formal and Informal Writing, An Introduction to IB English B (and many more) - and with a rich array of re-usable resources - these interactive lessons are sure to inspire.
Are you looking for a way to improve your IB English B students’ discussion skills? Look no further than Contented Being’s ready-made Harkness Discussion lessons!
Harkness Discussions are student-led discussions where students gather to discuss a text or topic, fostering active listening, critical thinking, and respectful dialogue. The focus is very much on the students leading the discussion and learning from each other.
In just three lessons, your students will learn the skills needed to run an effective Harkness Discussion, research an essential question, and practice running a discussion using contribution cards and research notes.
In the first lesson, students will clarify the rules for respectful listening, explore 16 ways to contribute to a discussion, and practise creating keyworded images – a useful note-taking tool using a handy mini-booklet. By the end of this lesson, your students will have practised three skills needed to run a Harkness Discussion.
In the second lesson, students will research answers to the essential question: Should students should have unlimited access to CHATGPT in the classroom? They will share applications for the keyworded images note-taking method, create another mini-book, and research eight questions about the impact of CHATGPT on education. This is to prepare them for the Harkness Discussion they will have in the next lesson.
In the third and final lesson, students will review different ways to contribute to a Harkness Discussion, learn some of the basic rules and expectations, have practice running a discussion, and reflect deeply about the process. By the end of this lesson, your students will have practised conducting a Harkness Discussion and will have reflected on the experience.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to improve your students’ discussion skills with Contented Being’s ready-made Harkness Discussion lessons which contain slideshows with embedded scripts and multiple, scaffolded speaking frames. Which means – the only preparation you do is print, copy and laminate resources. The lessons practically run themselves, allowing you to give attention to individual students.
Watch as your students become more engaged, confident, and skilled in their ability to discuss effectively.
Looking for a fun and engaging way to improve your students’ speaking skills? Look no further than Speak Circles! My ready-made lesson includes everything you need to get started, including 6 speaking card sets (with 18 speaking frames each) and a complete just-click lesson slideshow. By the end of the lesson, your students will have learned the ground rules for respectful listening, the rules for Speak Circles, and practised using a variety of sentence starters and frames through rounds based on each of the IB Learner Themes. Your students will have the opportunity to question, to share opinions, to agree, to disagree, and to extend each other’s ideas. Plus, the plenary and homework activities ensure that the learning continues even after the lesson is over. Don’t miss out on this valuable speaking lesson!
SPEAK CIRCLES: SPEAKING LESSON
(60 minutes)
RESOURCES:
Speaking Cards Sets 1-6
Speak Circles Lesson Slideshow
LESSON OUTCOME: To practise speaking skills using a range of sentence starters and sentence frames.
By the end of this lesson, your students will have provided the ground rules for respectful listening, learned the rules for Speak Circles, and used a variety of speaking cards to develop different ways to question, share opinions, agree, disagree and extend each other’s ideas through rounds based on each of the IB Learner Themes.
Activities:
STARTER: To appreciate the concept of respectful listening
• Students establish the meaning of respectful listening and discuss how it looks, sounds and feels. (5 mins)
Activity 2: To become familiar with Speak Circle Activities
• Students learn the rules for Speak Circles
• Round One: The Question Round: Students generate a series of questions based on a picture of a littered beach.
• Round Two: The Opinion Round: Students share their opinions of AI after watching a brief video.
• Round Three: The Ask to Clarify: Students listen to a song, share their opinions, and are asked to clarify their opinions about social media.
• Round Four: The Politely Disagree Round: Students watch a video about culture and identity and practise learning to politely disagree with each other’s views and opinions.
• Round Five: The Agree and Develop Round: Students watch a video poem, share their ideas about the impact of devices on experiences and are challenged to develop each other’s points. (5 x 10 mins = 50 mins)
PLENARY: To share responses to Speak Circles as a learning tool
• Students discuss how they feel about the Speak Circle process (5 mins)
HOMEWORK: To think of 3 different ways that Speak Circles can be used
• Students must think of other ways that rounds can be used in Speak Circles
Looking for lessons to introduce your Year 12 students to the IB English B course? Designed to develop independent learning skills, these 3 low-to-no prep introductory lessons are ideal!
In Lesson 1, students will generate 20 questions about the course, brainstorm research options, and locate specific information. In Lesson 2, students will explore essential questions about each of the 5 themes and generate topics related to each theme by encapsulating them in images. In Lesson 3, students will delve deep into the IB Learner Profile, summarizing each attribute graphically and explaining how the 3 introduction lessons have supported various attributes.
With engaging activities that promote critical thinking, analysis, and collaboration, these ready-to-use lessons are the perfect way to introduce students to some of the vital skills needed for the English B journey.
These lessons are slideshow-led, so once you have printed or collated recommended resources, you’re set to go!
Check out the video preview for the lesson plans overview.
Would you like an HL literature teaching pack containing low-to-no-prep resources with EVERYTHING you need to prepare your students for their Individual Oral?
Look no further than my Individual Oral Preparation Resources, specifically designed for busy teachers like you. My IB English B HL Literature Pack is fully-resourced, time-saving, and instantly-usable, making it perfect for both new and experienced teachers.
This pack is based on my award-winning and highly-acclaimed young adult novel, The Pebble Champion, about a gay teen dealing with the death of his mother, The novel is Lang B-relevant and explores powerful themes such as loss, grief, guilt, coming-of-age, identity, and inner strength. With the PDF version of the novel included, you can make as many copies as you need, saving both time and money.
But that’s not all. The pack also includes resources to help your students explore the novel, including a set of ready-to-use, discussion-based slideshow lessons covering pre-reading, setting research, chapter-by-chapter discussions, and post-reading reflection.
Plus, the workbooks and teacher resources will help your students prepare for their oral, with a 5-step planning process and speaking process, as well as 20 text extracts for practice and prediction activities. Mock and Final Exam extracts are also included.
What’s in the pack?
• 1 x PDF Copy of the novel, The Pebble Champion
• 13 x Discussion-based Lesson Slideshows
• 5 x Student Workbooks + 3 Answer key booklets
• 2 x Oral Preparation Teacher Resource Books
• 1 x Suggested Teaching Schedule
That’s 30 x 60-minute lessons. Just what you’re looking for!
With 25 resources in total, there are 25 reasons to purchase this IB English B HL Literature Pack.
TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT SWIRL LESSON: Sentence Variety
(60 minutes – May take longer)
This lesson supports the writing of all text types.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Handout resources
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have used a jigsaw activity to teach each other 18 different ways to vary their sentences, incorporating sentence starters, sentence expanders, sentence punctuation and sentence types. Students will have used what they have learned to improve weak paragraphs. Depending on the size of your class, these activities may take more than one lesson to complete.
Activities:
INTERACTIVE STARTER: to identify and discuss the flaws in poorly written paragraphs. (5 minutes)
Activity 1 SWIRL TASK: To use home-expert groups, peer teaching, group writing, and jigsaw learning to practise applying 18 sentence-variety tips to improve a weak paragraph. (50 minutes)
PLENARY: to identify ways that other groups have improved their paragraphs. (5 minutes)
HOMEWORK: To text each other using the sentence variety tips learned in the lesson.
Apart from the need to print handouts and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT SWIRL LESSON: Formal and Informal
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of all text types.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Handout resources
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have discerned through speaking, writing, interacting, reading and listening (SWIRL) activities. the rules for writing both formal and informal registers using 4 formal and informal letters . From a loud starter, to paired tasks where students have to use their inference and observation skills, to a rules-generating activity, your students will rely on previous knowledge and newly-shared information to formulate rules for formal and informal writing.
Activities:
Activity 1: INTERACTIVE STARTER: to write on the board things they already know about formal and informal writing. (5 minutes)
Activity 2: READING AND SPEAKING TASK: To use observation and inference skills to identify how texts conform to what they already know. Students will be comparing two formal and 2 informal texts. (15 minutes)
Activity 3: READING , SPEAKING AND LISTENING: To identify ways that informal texts have been made more formal. (20 minutes)
Activity 4: WRITING TASK: To formulate a list of rules for writing in formal and informal registers, and to share their ideas to clear misconceptions or improve their lists. (15 minutes)
PLENARY: to add to the ideas generated at the beginning at the lesson. (5 minutes)
HOMEWORK: To research the rules for formal and informal and add them to the notes made during the lesson.
Apart from the need to print handouts and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
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TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT VOCABULARY LESSON: Formal and Informal
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of all the required English B Text types.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Resource Booklet
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned 6 sets of 18 vocabulary words associated with formal and informal writing in these categories: contractions, FANBOYS and conjunctive adverbs, formal vocabulary, colloquial language, nominalised verbs and adjectives, and phrasal verbs. They will use the Pelmanism Game to try to remember the vocabulary and play another memory game to help retain the words encountered in the lesson. The ultimate goal of the lesson is to remember informal words and their formal counterparts.
Activities:
Activity 1: STARTER: to unscramble terms related to the categories featured in the rest of the lesson. Students will also match those terms with the correct definitions and identify which relates to the formal and which to the informal register. (15 minutes)
Activity 2: THE PELMANISM GAME: to use observation, inference, and memory skills to identify pairs of formal and informal counterparts. (30 minutes)
Activity 3: MEMORY TASK: to use observation and memory to link informal words with their formal counterparts. (10 minutes)
PLENARY: to quiz one another on words encountered in the lesson. (5 minutes)
HOMEWORK: To text one another: one sends an informal message; the other replies with its formal equivalent.
Apart from the need to print handouts and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT SWIRL LESSON: Direct and Indirect Speech
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Embedded Interview, Editorial, Opinion Column, News Report
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Handout resources
Homework ANSWER KEY
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned the rules for writing both direct and indirect speech using speaking, writing, interacting, reading and listening (SWIRL) activities. From a loud starter, to paired information gap tasks, writing tasks and interactive quizzing, your students will explore ways to correctly punctuate direct speech and will write their own examples based on mentor sentences.
Activities:
Activity 1: STARTER: to write on the board things they already know about direct/indirect speech. (5 minutes)
Activity 2: GUESS THE RULES TASK: to use observation, inference, and annotation skills to determine the rules for writing direct speech. (10 minutes)
Activity 3: SPEAKING TASK: to share and agree on the rules in small groups. (5 minutes)
Activity 4: LISTENING TASK: to sit back-to-back to share additional rules about direct speech and correct/ amend responses based on the teacher’s notes. (10 minutes)
Activity 5: READING TASK: to learn about the rules for indirect speech and use an info gap activity to complete the information on their respective handouts. Students will also use reading and listening tasks to understand the rules of reported speech. (10 minutes)
Activity 6: WRITING TASK: to create their own direct and indirect sentences using mentor sentences (10 minutes)
Activity 7: INTERACTING TASK: to quiz each other to show they have learned the basics for transforming direct to indirect and vice-versa. (5 minutes)
PLENARY: to record takeaways from the lesson. (5 minutes)
HOMEWORK: To complete a worksheet converting direct to indirect (and vice-versa) using formal and informal sentences.
Apart from the need to print handouts and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT LISTENING LESSON: How to Write Contextual Background Paragraph
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Essays, Letters to the editor, Opinion columns, News and magazine articles, Speeches, Blog posts, Proposals, Official reports.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Student WORKBOOK
Student Workbook ANSWER KEY
Audio Track
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have practised listening skills to learn about a way to structure a contextual background paragraph. They will then create substitution tables based on mentor sentences to generate a range of general statements to begin their paragraphs. Their homework will be to write a contextual background paragraph based on IB-themed prompts.
Activities:
Activity 1 PRE-LISTENING TASK STARTER: to write 5 things they already know about writing contextual background paragraphs. (2 minutes)
Activity 2 LISTENING TASK: to identify 30 factual details about writing contextual background paragraphs by listening to an audio lesson and filling in listening gaps and answering comprehension questions. (8 minutes)
(Please note: this is not a listening test; it does not have the same rigour and level of difficulty as a listening exam. Its purpose is to teach students about writing effective hooks.)
Activity 3 AGREE and MARK TASK: to share and agree on the answers. Then they will mark their work using the given answer key. (2 minutes)
Activity 4: SUBSTITUTION TABLE TASK: to work in groups to generate a range of synonyms to create a substitution table to help them structure their general statements. (20 minutes)
Activity 5: SHARING TASK: to share their responses with one another so that each student has the same information recorded in their workbooks. (25 minutes)
PLENARY: to record 5 takeaways from the lesson. (3 minutes)
HOMEWORK: To complete two writing tasks: 1) to create a range of general statements; 2) to write a contextual background paragraph.
Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
TEXT TYPES SUPPORT LISTENING LESSON: Active and Passive Voice
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Proposals, Letters to the Editor, Official Report, Formal Email
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Student WORKBOOK
Student Workbook ANSWER KEY
Audio Tracks
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned how to distinguish between active and passive voice and learned how to create passive sentences through listening, reading, speaking and writing activities.
Activities:
Activity 1: PRE-LISTENING TASK STARTER: to write 3 things they already know about active and passive voice. (1 minute)
Activity 2: LISTENING TASK: to identify 45 factual details about active and passive voice by listening to an audio lesson and answering exam-style listening comprehension questions. (25 minutes)
(Please note: this is not a listening test; it does not have the same rigour and level of difficulty as a listening exam. Its purpose is to teach students about active and passive voice.)
Activity 3: ACTIVE VOICE PRACTICE: to create active voice sentences by reading task instructions and creating active sentences to use when speaking in groups of 4. (15 minutes)
Activity 4: PASSIVE VOICE PRACTICE: to practise creating passive voice structures by working in pairs. (15 minutes)
PLENARY: to add 5 things they have learned to their starter page. (4 minutes)
HOMEWORK: To complete two active and passive voice writing tasks.
Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
TEXT TYPE SKILLS SUPPORT LISTENING LESSON: How to PERSUADE your reader.
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Opinion Columns, Speeches, Brochures, Advertisements, Argumentative Essays, Proposals.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Student WORKBOOK
Student Workbook ANSWER KEY
Audio Track
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have learned about 14 effective PERSUASIVE writing tools.
Activities:
Activity 1 PRE-LISTENING TASK STARTER: to write 3 things they already know about persuasive techniques.
Activity 2 LISTENING TASK: to capture specific details (techniques and examples) relating to 14 persuasive writing tools.
(Please note: this is not a listening test; it does not have the same rigour and level of difficulty as a listening exam. Its purpose is to teach students about writing effective hooks.)
Activity 3 AGREE TASK: to share and agree on the notes that should have been made.
Activity 4: NOTE-MAKING TASKS: to use the acronym FLATTERY to collate notes about the 14 techniques.
Activity 5: PLENARY: to add 5 more notes to their pre-listening starter page.
HOMEWORK: To research the internet for persuasive techniques not learned in today’s lesson.
Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is LOW-TO-NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements and to print resource materials.)
You can use this resource as a standalone lesson, or combine it with the other HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE HOOKS lesson:
· WRITING LESSON:
In this lesson, students MATCH 14 persuasive techniques with their specific examples. Then, using a prompt, they PRACTISE creating examples of each of the persuasive techniques.
TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT WRITING LESSON: How to PERSUADE your reader.
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Opinion Columns, Speeches, Brochures, Advertisements,
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Resource Pack
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have practised writing 14 persuasive writing techniques.
Activities:
Activity 1 MATCHING PAIRS STARTER: to match the example to the relevant technique.
Activity 2 SENTENCE FRAMES TASK: to create 14 examples of persuasive writing tools.
Activity 4: PLENARY: to identify persuasive tools using student-generated examples.
HOMEWORK: To complete any unfinished work / and or complete the written task based on the given prompt.
Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is LOW-TO-NO PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements and print resource materials.)
You can use this resource as a standalone lesson, or combine it with the other HOW TO PERSUADE YOUR READER lesson:
· LISTENING LESSON:
In this lesson, students use a listening lesson audio and listening task in two groups: group ONE listens for just the techniques, and group TWO listens for just the EXAMPLES. Then, working together, the two groups collate their notes onto the acronym called FLATTERY.
3 Dynamic and highly-interactive lessons to teach IB students how to develop the skill of writing effective hooks to engage their readers. One way this bundle can be used is to provide the Listening Lesson to SL students; the SWIRL lesson to HL and the Writing Lesson to both SL and HL.
(Although, I only teach HL students and have successfully used all 3 lessons with them.)
1.TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT LISTENING LESSON: How to Write Effective Hooks
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Student WORKBOOK
Student Workbook ANSWER KEY
Audio Track
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have practised listening skills to learn about 5 effective ways to hook their readers AND they will have made mind map notes for use when writing and revising.
TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT SWIRL LESSON: (Speaking, Writing, Interacting, Reading, Listening)
How to Write Effective Hooks
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
SWIRL Resource Pack
Audio Track
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have used sentence unscrambling, dictogloss, running dictogloss, and group discussion tasks to develop their understanding of hook writing. They will use a range of hook examples to understand how hooks can be used for different text types and English B themes.
TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT WRITING LESSON: How to Write Effective Hooks
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Student Workbook
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have created a variety of sentence frames using hook mentor sentences and then used those frames to practise writing 5 different hooks for 5 separate text types. They will also have competed with each other and voted on the most effective hooks written.
Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
TEXT TYPE SKILLS SUPPORT WRITING LESSON: How to Write Effective Hooks
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Student Workbook
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have created a variety of sentence frames using hook mentor sentences and then used those frames to practise writing 5 different hooks for 5 separate text types. They will also have competed with each other and voted on the most effective hooks written.
Activities:
Activity 1 WORD UNSCRAMBLER STARTER: to reveal two quotations about hooking readers by famous authors.
Activity 2 SENTENCE FRAMES TASK: to create 15 sentence frames using mentor hook sentences.
Activity 3 WRITING TASK: to practise writing a variety of hooks for different text types using sentence frames.
Activity 4: PLENARY: to evaluate the effectiveness of some of the hooks written by the students.
HOMEWORK: To complete any unfinished work.
Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
You can use this resource as a standalone lesson, or combine it with the other two HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE HOOKS lessons:
• SWIRL LESSON: (Speaking, Writing, Interaction, Reading, Listening)
This lesson uses sentence unscrambling, dictogloss, running dictation, and group discussion tasks to further student understanding of hook writing. They use a range of hook examples to understand how hooks can be used for different text types and themes. A highly interactive and fun lesson for both SL and HL classes.
• LISTENING LESSON:
In this lesson, students use a listening lesson audio and listening comprehension (with exam-style questions) to learn about the purpose of effective hooks, 5 different types of hooks, and examples of how they can be used. They then create a mind map collating everything they have learned for use when writing and revising. Ideal for both SL and HL classes.
TEXT TYPES SUPPORT SWIRL LESSON: (Speaking, Writing, Interacting, Reading, Listening)
How to Write Effective Hooks
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
SWIRL Resource Pack
Audio Track
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have used sentence unscrambling, dictogloss, running dictation, and group discussion tasks to develop their understanding of hook writing. They will use a range of hook examples to understand how hooks can be used for different text types and English B themes.
Activities:
Activity 1 SENTENCE UNSCRAMBLER STARTER: to article the function of effective hooks by unscrambling a definition sentence.
Activity 2 DICTOGLOSS: to correctly transcribe an example of an effective hook by listening to an audio track. After 4 listening opportunities, they will then check for grammatical and spelling accuracy by marking their work to see how much they scored out of 40.
Activity 3 RUNNING DICTATION: to aim for grammatical accuracy and precision by remembering, repeating and transcribing 5 different examples of effective hooks. This is a timed, highly-competitive activity that allows students to practise SWIRL. They will also then determine the type of hook example, the text type it refers to and the theme it relates to.
Activity 4: DISCUSSION TASK : to discuss how hooks can be used for a variety of text types and themes.
PLENARY: to express their knowledge of hooks through a precise application.
HOMEWORK: To research hooks not covered in this lesson.
Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
You can use this resource as a standalone lesson, or combine it with the other two HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE HOOKS lessons:
• LISTENING LESSON:
In this lesson, students use a listening lesson audio and listening comprehension (with exam-style questions) to learn about the purpose of effective hooks, 5 different types of hooks, and examples of how they can be used. They then create a mind map collating everything they have learned for use when writing and revising. Ideal for both SL and HL classes.
• WRITING LESSON:
In this lesson, students create a variety of sentence frames using hook mentor sentences and then use those frame to practise writing 5 different hooks for 5 separate text types. They then get to compete and vote on the most effective hooks written by each other. Ideal for both SL and HL classes.
TEXT TYPES SKILLS SUPPORT LISTENING LESSON: How to Write Effective Hooks
(60 minutes)
This lesson supports the writing of the following text types: Blogs, Speeches, Articles, Social Media Posts, Advertisements.
Resources:
No-prep, ready-made SLIDESHOW
Student WORKBOOK
Student Workbook ANSWER KEY
Audio Track
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of this lesson, your students will have practised listening skills to learn about 5 effective ways to hook their readers AND they will have made mind map notes for use when writing and revising.
Activities:
Activity 1 PRE-LISTENING TASK STARTER: to write 5 things they already know about writing hooks.
Activity 2 LISTENING TASK: to identify 25 factual details about writing hooks by listening to an audio lesson twice and answering exam-type listening comprehension questions.
(Please note: this is not a listening test; it does not have the same rigour and level of difficulty as a listening exam. Its purpose is to teach students about writing effective hooks.)
Activity 3 AGREE and MARK TASK: to share and agree on the answers. Then they will mark their work using the given answer key.
Activity 4: POST-LISTENING TASK 1: to add 5 more pieces of information to their starter activity.
Activity 5: POST-LISTENING TASK 2: to collate everything they have learned onto a mind map template.
Activity 6: PLENARY: to share 3 main takeaways from the lesson.
HOMEWORK: To complete their mind maps.
Apart from the need to print workbooks and a few bits of admin, this lesson is NO-PREP, INSTANTLY-USABLE.
(You just need to run through the slideshow to familiarise yourself with the lesson elements.)
You can use this resource as a standalone lesson, or combine it with the other two HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE HOOKS lessons:
• SWIRL LESSON: (Speaking, Writing, Interaction, Reading, Listening)
This lesson uses sentence unscrambling, dictogloss, running dictation, and group discussion tasks to further student understanding of hook writing. They use a range of hook examples to understand how hooks can be used for different text types and themes. A highly interactive and fun lesson for both SL and HL classes.
• WRITING LESSON:
In this lesson, students create a variety of sentence frames using hook mentor sentences and then use those frame to practise writing 5 different hooks for 5 separate text types. They then get to compete and vote on the most effective hooks written by each other. Ideal for both SL and HL classes.
This is the complete bundle containing all of the HOW TO WRITE ENGLISH B TEXT TYPE PACKS that I have created.
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With each pack, you will receive:
The SL Workbook – with answer options for Part 1 worksheets
The HL Workbook – without answer options for Part 1 worksheets
A one-page Jumbled Mentor Text Starter – the elements of the mentor text are jumbled up and students need to sequence them correctly.
An answer key for Part 1 worksheets.
Each workbook contains 2 parts:
Part ONE contains worksheets to encourage students to do these activities:
read the jumbled version of the mentor text and sequence the different elements correctly
discuss and make decisions about the choice of text type to fulfil the requirements of the prompt
read the actual mentor text
answer comprehension questions to show understanding of the mentor text - now based on actual exam-type questions
identify and label the different features of the mentor text
explain different grammar aspects
answer questions about synonyms, antonyms and the meaning of words
determine how the main ideas in paragraphs are developed and extended.
Part TWO invites students to write that text type using a follow-on prompt and to show handwritten evidence (by writing everything into the workbook) that they have …
conducted a mini-research project to provide them with the necessary background information for the content of the task
extracted relevant vocabulary and created sentence frames to assist the writing process
used a structured planning page to jot down notes for each element of the writing task
followed a step-by-step guide to writing their first draft
assessed their first drafts with an informative checklist that also contains relevant advice to help them improve their first draft.
The entire writing process, from understanding and using a mentor text, to researching, thinking about, planning, and redrafting is therefore completely visible and should provide students with enough practice to confidently write about each text type in their examinations.
The entire bundle covers these text types, topics, and related themes:
An ARTICLE about learning to learn (Human Ingenuity)
A BLOG ENTRY about the impact of social media (Identities)
A DIARY ENTRY about cultural gaffes (Social Organisation)
AN ESSAY about the need to learn writing skills (Human Ingenuity)
AN INFORMAL EMAIL about pet euthanasia (Experiences)
A LETTER TO THE EDITOR about plastic pollution (Sharing the Planet)
A PROPOSAL about improving International Day (Social Organisation)
A REVIEW of a fiction book (Experiences)
A SPEECH about saving a zoo (Sharing the Planet)
AN OFFICAL REPORT about a technology experiment (Identities)
A PERSUASIVE BROCHURE about a theme parks (Human Ingenuity)
AN EMBEDDED INTERVIEW about making a difference (Sharing the Planet)
A NEWS REPORT about being remarkable (Human Ingenuity)
A SET OF GUIDELINES about mental well-being (Identities)
A SET OF INSTRUCTIONS about learning to learn (Human Ingenuity)
A SOCIAL MEDIA POST about Third-Culture Kids (Identities)
This is a workbook showing IB English B students how to write A SET OF INSTRUCTIONS comprising
a mentor text
comprehension, language, vocabulary worksheets
a mini-research project
a guided writing process - including a step-by-step guide and comprehensive post-draft checklist with helpful advice
This pack contains a SL workbook (20 pages), a HL workbook (20 pages), a Jumbled Text Starter and an Answer Key Booklet.
Please watch the video for more details.
