Please use your notes from today’s lesson – and recall all of the skills you have been practising over the past two weeks – to plan your review of Britain’s Got Talent. These plans must be completed for tomorrow’s lesson (8xEn3 with Miss Maguire).
If you need a copy of the planning sheet, click here.
Here’s the episode again if you want to watch it and add to your notes.
Talent TV shows are full of clichés, aren’t they? Please find five clichés that you will usually find in a talent TV show like The X Factor or Britain’s Got Talent and write them in the comments box below.
Deadline: Wednesday 22 July
Design a flow chart to show how you might structure your own talent TV review based on The Scotsman article, Fear and Loathing…
The following example of the first few steps is a fairly straightforward potential structure, however for students who want to (or need to) challenge themselves, you could create an alternative, more sophisticated, structure. Either way, be prepared to justify your decisions.
Find a review of a talent TV show (e.g. BGT, X Factor, The Voice, etc.), highlight the topic sentences in each paragraph and then explain the connection between each topic sentence and its following paragraph.
Deadline: Thursday 16 July.
If you want to add to the notes that you took in class today, please find the clips we watched below. Have a great weekend!
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