Hello, Class! This is Towako from MEL School.
How are you doing?
Today, both ELST and Q Skills gave us a chance to think about how society changes and how we understand information about those changes.
In ELST, we listened to how family life in Britain has changed over the past fifty years and compared those changes with Japanese society. In Q Skills, we continued exploring misinformation in the media and learned why checking sources and accuracy is essential when we read or write about the world.
See you next week!
Towako
<Lesson Review>
ELST — Narration
B2.1 #4: The Changes in Family Life in Britain in the Past Fifty Years
You copied the hints into your notebook before listening, took notes, and then explained what you heard to your partner.
The narration introduced several factors that have changed family life in Britain, including:
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the liberation of women
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the social and economic effects of World War II
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advances in science and medicine
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lower infant death rates and better health
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more effective birth control
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changing attitudes toward religion, authority, and tradition
After retelling the information, you discussed:
What changes are similar to those in Japanese society?
This was a challenging B2-level narration with many ideas connected through cause and effect. The goal is not to remember every sentence. Listen for the key factors, organize them, and then reconstruct the main ideas in your own words.
We then checked the script together and studied important vocabulary and expressions.
Q Skills for Success Reading and Writing -2
Unit 1: Communication and Media
Can you believe what you read online?
Reading 2: Recognizing Misinformation in the Media
We continued reading about misinformation and worked on identifying and explaining the main ideas of the article.
In Work with the Reading, you answered comprehension questions and chose the main idea. You then looked more closely at each paragraph and explained how its information contributed to the overall message of the article.
At this level, it is not enough to simply find the sentence that contains the answer. Try to ask:
What is the writer's main point, and what information supports it?
Global Skills: Critical Thinking
We also focused on an important rule of academic writing:
List your sources and make sure your information is correct and accurate.
This connects directly to our Unit Question:
Can you believe what you read online?
When we find information online, we should not automatically accept it as true. Where did the information come from? What evidence supports it? Is the source reliable?
These are important questions not only for academic reading and writing, but also for understanding the enormous amount of information we encounter every day.
Lesson Review
