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Listening Practice

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Watch the videos then answer the questions below for each one.

1. Explain in detail who you think would watch this programme. Give reasons to support answer.

2. What is/are the purpose/purposes of the programme?

3. Consider the way in which the contributors to the programme uses language such as word choice, repetition, tone of voice, or other relevant features to affect the viewer’s opinion (four techniques with analysis to pass).
 
4. What have you learned from watching this clip? Tell me at least four things and support your answer with detailed evidence.
 
5. What side of the argument do you agree with? Explain your views and support with evidence from the programme you have watched.

BGE

Audio Books: something with a bit more dRaMa!

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How about a girly themed playlist?

Cookie by Jacqueline Wilson

Looking for Alaska by John Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTWxQ0WclKA

and his Fault in Our Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NZNrjMA1uc

how ’bout Zoe Sugg’s Girl Online?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OszqyzxQjxs

Or R J Palacio’s Wonder?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXAM0Nrsm5k

Then there’s The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRES3S_NRV8

Gayle Foreman’s If I Stay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzDV4_fg0I

BGE

Audio Books: Cressida Cowell

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A whole series about keeping a pet dragon and they’re read by someone who used to be The Doctor! I think they’re in the right order!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35kKCgiXdB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWgjpjHNd4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmg1NcNQVBg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RblgDEqEemw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZHyzeQPLqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_7Gy8vbwe8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYzDe8LxqFQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFaeYn5RMGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYEQnMPGCcE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsth-yIZkXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7SduC9wcnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BVZggXl1S8

BGE

Audio Books: Dystopian fiction (that means freaky future worlds)

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so the obvious choices here are The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth and The Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner.

THE HUNGER GAMES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCnnYPw-BXQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv-lG53P1tA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8psPBENPCo

THE MAZE RUNNER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOioYKWPX_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRc4FwQ1OB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGOtftE1JU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1zFKYckWGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sebS58TjTLA

DIVERGENT BOOK 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci8YB1RK-UE

BGE

Audio Books: Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz

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If you enjoy watching James Bond or Jason Bourne then you might like this. A teenage boy is hired by the British Secret service and sent on missions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evyTqjXvbTg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcuCx9P3P_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK1lLqIseRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C59122bwXuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGT0aTHjNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fPguasmW10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojS_dyFAXS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-i4M-A3xhc

BGE

Audio books: a fantasy playlist

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Do you like delving off into other fantastical lands? Then these are for you…

Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niu2dkaAdMY

Garth Nix’s Lirael
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSKB_zD-lKM

Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (you might have to visit YouTube to get the full playlist for this one.)

Ransom Rigg’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0jRUyVyvYs

Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones (this is the first in the Mortal Instruments series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehxxthp0Tm0

Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Lightening Thief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxNfYldpfro

Sarah J Mass’s A Court of Thorns & Roses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMlwha64jcg

C S Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew (this is the start of a seven part series!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by-4pYQbvBs

J K Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find them (because the film is out soon!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JekbE6FrjZM