GCSE Booklet: Technology & Social Media - Booklet 1

This 1st 12 pages booklet on the topic of Technology and Social Media (Identity and Culture - Youth Culture) covers the topics of the use of technology and social media: when it is used and what it is used for. It also gets pupils to practise their use of the present tense of -er verbs, irregular verbs, as well as introducing stem changing verbs and present participles in an informal way. There is a wide range of activities which are based around a sentence builder, and include word ordering tasks, conversations, translations, readings, word recognition tasks and writing tasks. It exposes pupils to a good range of vocabulary and structures, whilst revisiting structures that have been previously seen in the topic of Self and Relationships. Structures are recycled throughout the booklet to facilitate language assimilation. I have used it with my mixed ability Yr10 and have received very positive feedback. It is also ideal for homework tasks, independent work and cover lessons. The booklet format allows you to keep track effectively of pupils’ work and makes accessing reference material an easy task when it is stuck into books once completed. I couple it with a lot of listening and reading aloud activities and also make pupils learn off by heart the answers they produce in this booklet, in preparation for the Speaking and Writing tasks.
A second booklet will follow that covers advantages and disadvantages of technology and social media,