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Appearance vs Reality

Autour de la série Golden Bay

CEFR : A2, B1 7 diapositives 30 min Classe entière

Dans le diaporama

Une question pour lancer la classe
Une citation sourcée
10 mots pour en parler
5 questions à deux
Une comparaison
Un débat
Une tâche finale

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Everything looks perfect — Aperçu : les 3 premières diapositives, telles que vos élèves les voient au tableau.

Aperçu : les 3 premières diapositives, telles que vos élèves les voient au tableau.

Objective & content

A teacher-led slide deck on "Appearance vs Reality", projected full screen and stepped through with the arrow keys. 7 slides take the class from an opening question to a closing task, passing through a documented quote, the words needed to talk about it, paired discussion, a comparison and a short debate. By the end, students can state and defend a position on the question in English, using the vocabulary the deck supplies.

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Colour version In your teacher account
Black and white version In your teacher account

Pedagogical guide

The deck exists so that a discussion lesson does not depend on the class already having an opinion. Each slide hands them one more thing to think with: a fact, a quote with its source, a word with an example sentence. That order matters. Ask teenagers what they think before they have the words and you get silence or their own language; give them the words first and the same question produces English. The A2 and B1 prompts sit side by side on the discussion slides, so one deck serves a mixed class without preparing two lessons.

Suggested procedure30 min

2 min
Open the colour PDF full screen and read the opening question aloud. Take a show of hands, no talking yet.
8 min
Step through the quote and the vocabulary slides. Read each word and its example out loud; have the class repeat.
10 min
Pairs, on the discussion and comparison slides. Use the A2 line with everyone, the B1 line with pairs who finish early.
7 min
The debate slide, whole class. Insist that every claim reuses one word from the vocabulary slide.
3 min
The closing task, set as homework or written in the last minutes.

Adaptations

SoutienUse the A2 prompt with the whole class and let students answer in one sentence. Leave the vocabulary slide on screen during the discussion so the words stay available.
ApprofondissementGive fast pairs the B1 stretch prompt, and ask them to argue the side they do not personally hold on the debate slide.

Materials & prerequisitesA projector or screen, and the colour PDF open full screen in any PDF reader: one page per slide, turned with the arrow keys. Its last page holds the teacher's notes, to read before the lesson rather than project. Nothing to install, and the low-ink PDF prints the deck for a classroom without a screen.