🗞️ B2 ENGLISH – CHAPTER 4, LESSON 1

Theme: The Media & Relative Clauses

🎯 Lesson Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
✅ Use advanced vocabulary related to the media, advertising, and journalism.
✅ Form and use relative clauses accurately to describe and connect ideas.
✅ Write professional documents such as emails, CVs, and formal letters.

💡 How to Use This Lesson

1. Begin with the Vocabulary Section (Units 47–50) to understand key media-related terms.

2. Move to the Grammar Section (Units 53–55) and review examples carefully.

3. Complete the Practice Section to apply your learning in writing and reading activities.

4. Reflect on what you’ve learned and connect it to real-life communication.

🧠 VOCABULARY SECTION

(The Media – Units 47–50)

📰 Unit 47: The Media – In Print

Learn vocabulary for newspapers, magazines, and print journalism.
💡 Tip: Pay attention to collocations like front page news, press release, and editorial column.

💻 Unit 48: The Media – Internet and Email

Understand language used in digital communication and online media platforms.
💡 Tip: Practice writing short professional emails to apply formal and informal tone distinctions.

📢 Unit 49: Advertising

Discover how advertisements use language to persuade and attract attention.
💡 Tip: Analyze slogans and identify adjectives that appeal to emotions — this builds persuasive writing skills.

🗣️ Unit 50: The News – Gathering and Delivering

Explore vocabulary about news production, journalists, and broadcasting.
💡 Tip: Try summarizing a real news report in three sentences to strengthen comprehension and precision.

📘 Download Vocabulary PDF (Units 47–50)

⚙️ GRAMMAR SECTION

(Relative Clauses and Other Types of Clause – Units 53–55)

🔤 Unit 53: Relative Pronouns

Learn to connect ideas using who, which, that, and whom correctly.
💡 Tip: Use commas with non-defining clauses (My brother, who lives in Kigali, is a teacher.).

🧭 Unit 54: Other Relative Words – Whose, When, Whereby, etc.

Expand your sentence variety by using advanced relative words.
💡 Tip: Practice rewriting short sentences into one using relative clauses for fluency.

🧩 Unit 55: Prepositions in Relative Clauses

Master the placement of prepositions in relative clauses (the person to whom I spoke vs the person I spoke to).
💡 Tip: In formal writing, place prepositions before the relative pronoun; in speaking, place them at the end.

📘 Download Grammar PDF (Units 53–55)

🧩 ONLINE PRACTICE SECTION

🎯 Practice Focus

Apply your new vocabulary and grammar through writing and reading tasks related to real-world communication.

🗨️ Topics Covered

• B2 Writing: A Covering Email

• B2 Writing: A CV

• B2 Writing: A Letter of Complaint

• Reading: UN International Literacy Day

💼 B2 Writing: A Covering Email

Learn to write formal emails that accompany job applications or official requests.
💡 Tip: Keep your tone polite and concise — use phrases like I am writing to express my interest in…

📄 B2 Writing: A CV

Develop a clear and well-organized CV highlighting your skills, experience, and achievements.
💡 Tip: Use action verbs (managed, developed, achieved) and avoid long sentences.

📨 B2 Writing: A Letter of Complaint

Practice writing formal letters to express dissatisfaction or request redress.
💡 Tip: Use a calm, respectful tone and structure your letter in three parts — problem, request, closing.

🌍 Reading: UN International Literacy Day

Read about the global initiative promoting education and literacy. Improve comprehension and vocabulary related to education and development.
💡 Tip: Note down three global challenges mentioned and summarize the main idea in one paragraph.

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