Beyond: Arts and Media

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Beyond on onestopenglish: Arts and Media

Karen Kovacs introduces this collection of topical lessons for teenagers related to art, television, literature, theatre, advertising, and the press. Students practise speaking and further subskills while being creative.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Advertising

In this lesson, students can create their own magazine and TV advertisments.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Art

In this lesson, students take an art survey, talk about art galleries and paintings, learn about Leonardo Da Vinci, explore the mysteries of the Mona Lisa and write a story.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Artists

In this lesson, students give opinions about art, draw a picture, pretend to be art critics, describe a picture of a room and talk about their own room.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Books

In this two-part lesson, students read about a book-sharing initiative, discuss their reading habits and read about Britain’s favourite book.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Graffiti

In this lesson, students read about famous walls and graffiti, create their own graffiti artwork, describe a bedroom wall and learn wall idioms.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Literary lives

In this lesson, students read biographies, interview their partner and create questions to get information from their teacher.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Magazines

In this lesson, students can exchange celebrity gossip and create their own magazine.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Newspapers

In this two-part lesson, students look at and discuss different newspaper websites, learn about newspaper vocabulary, and write their own newspaper story.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Newspapers 2

In this lesson, students can create their own newspaper front page and write a news story.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Performance Art

In this lesson, students can create and discuss their own musicals and street performances.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Radio

In this lesson, students can create their own radio programme.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Shakespeare

In this lesson students learn about Shakespeare’s life and words.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Soap operas

In this lesson, students read about soap operas and write their own soap opera scene.

Beyond: Arts and Media: Television

In this two-part lesson, students discover if they are TV addicts, and learn about adverbs of frequency, TV vocabulary and types of TV programmes.