S1E11 - The Artist Type
Episode of the series Golden Bay
The episode
Golden Bay's mystery-artist hunt rotates to a new suspect, and digging into someone's past turns up an old habit of tagging walls that nobody expected.
Episode worksheets (2)
- Student sheet In your teacher account
- Teacher sheet In your teacher account
Teaching guide
Objective & content
Golden Bay, Module 3, episode 11 (level A2+). Stella meets Theo, an 18-year-old who paints a legal, signed mural, and she becomes sure he is the anonymous Golden Bay artist. Mika warns her, Tiago keeps quiet in the café, and Theo himself says it is not him. The grammar focus is the past simple and used to for backstory, as in "Used to. I graduated." Vocabulary comes from art, feelings and detective language. Learners listen for who says what and why, then take the in-app quiz.
Pedagogical guide
The 45-minute plan uses the meeting between Stella and Theo to teach how to talk about where someone grew up and what they did. Learners separate finished past events (past simple) from things that were true before and are not now (used to). The plan includes [S] support frames and [A] extension tasks.
Suggested procedure
- (4 min) Warm-up activating prior knowledge, with sticky notes or scrap paper.
- (6 min) Preview six key words with simple definitions.
- (4 min) First listen, no pauses: global comprehension.
- (8 min) Second listen with three pauses (the wall, the school scene, the café scene): where did Theo grow up, why does Mika doubt Stella, what does Tiago say?
- (5 min) Comprehension check: five questions, oral or written.
- (5 min) Vocabulary practice: matching game; the student sheet serves as homework.
- (6 min) Grammar focus: three script lines in the past simple, then used to; learners write two past simple sentences and one with used to about themselves.
- (4 min) Pair speaking: a new person in town answers "Where did you grow up?" and "What did you use to like?"
- (3 min, optional) Write four or five sentences about a person you know well.
Materials & prerequisites
The episode audio or the Academy app, a board or projector, the student sheet and the teacher sheet (PDF and HTML versions), and sticky notes or scrap paper. Learners should know regular and common irregular past forms.
Curriculum alignment
4ème (cycle 4), axes "Encountering others" and "Languages and communication".
Possible adaptations
- Lower levels: Offer segmented listening and additional visual aids.
- Advanced levels: Encourage an oral summary and a debate in English on the theme.
- Large groups: Organise group work with differentiated roles.
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