Always remember how good information gap tasks are! This one generates listening, reading, speaking and factual, cultiral knowledge for the A-level exam. Just sit back and watch your B1/2 level students (Y13 in England) listen and speak! I used Le Chat (Mistral AI) to generate the texts and questions, just doing a few vocab glosses if words were likley not to be understood. I asked for level B1. le Chat works as well as Chat GPT for this sort of resource creation and comes with less political baggage. The topic is how French charities support migrants and I would have very happily set this as a task for an A-level (Y13) class. If you have an odd number in the group, just create one group of three where two students share the same text and take tuns asking the questions. This is a sort of variation on my 'Ask the Experts' tasks on the site, but this has the advantage that you can do it with a very samll group — as few as two! Here is my resource — you could get AI to create si...
A few weeks ago I was in Brussels visiting an old friend, Jonathan, who is retired but does voluntary work including teaching English to teenage students who have dropped out of school for various reasons. These students attend a school run by ABER . Their website states that their aim is to help 15-21 year-olds get back into school by offering a personal education programme. This includes English lessons. Most of the class were of Moroccan descent, all had fluent French. The class had various levels of English ranging from A! (very little) to A2/B1 - a certain degree of fluency. My friend asked me if I would like to come along and join in with an English lesson, which I was very happy to do. Now Jonathan is not a trained teacher and he was pleased to let me take over the class of about 12 students. We had been given a somewhat dated article to use whose main aim was to get students using the future tense. To play along, I got the students to do some choral reading, pronunciation ...