Summary: Talking about wedding ceremonies around the world.
Level: Intermediate
Time: 90 min.
Comparing wedding customs around the world. Vocabulary: words to describe weddings. Grammar and functions: describing a sequence of events: before and after.
Start off with playing Wagner's wedding march and showing photographs. Ask students to brainstorm vocabulary to describe weddings. Make them put the words in three categories: preparation for the wedding, the ceremony, the celebration.
Students visit the webpages {1} & {2} and add new vocabulary to their lists. Optionally they paste the words into ReadPlease and check the pronunciation.
Ask the students what traditions connected with weddings they know. Divide the class into 5-6 groups and ask them to try and answer these questions.
Each group checks the answers to 2-3 questions and then the students exchange information.
Tell the students they are to choose one of the websites and read about weddings in different cultures. Before reading they can do a vocabulary prediction exercise: ask them to guess which words they would expect to find in the articles.
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The students visit the sites and read the texts. They write 10 True/False questions about unusual or surprising wedding traditions. Then they publish their questions and go to other sites to find the answers in the texts.
The students write a description of a chosen wedding ceremony using before/after whenever possible (120-160 words).
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Agata Zięba-Warcholak 
