
These slides are designed to work in conjunction with a British Council lesson on reviewing music, and as such is rather short. It is primarily designed as a speaking and conversation activity and to explore how to review negatives of a positive thing to further foster critical thinking and writing. It is recommended that you change some of the albums listed to make them more personalised to you as that will be easier to talk about.


Slide 1 is a title slide.


Slide 2 is an overview of the lesson slides.


Slide 3 is a simple activity where the students describe their favourite album to each other.


Slide 4 is similar, but the students describe albums that they dislike. This can be a good opportunity to ask other students if they like some of the albums your students suggest and can be a good way to introduce them to the topic of finding negative things about things they like.


Slide 5 has the teacher introduce an album they really like and say the thing they dislike about it. I used England Keep My Bones (the best Frank Turner album ever which happens to include the dullest song in history).


Slide 6 is a quote by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw about the game "Portal". He expresses it is "sublime" and that he is frustrated because of that. Have the class discuss why a reviewer might be upset that something is "perfect" and elicit some responses.


Finally, on Slide 7 have the class discuss something they dislike about their favourite album with a partner.


It is recommended that this work up towards students writing a review or making a presentation about their favourite album where they include some negatives. A music review planning sheet has been uploaded to iSL Collective as a separate assignment.

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Writing A Music Review (2) - The Best of the Worst

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These slides are designed to work in conjunction with a British Council lesson on reviewing music, an…