A video report from the Bastille Day celebrations in France is a perfect excuse to discuss nationalism and patriotism, but also social inequality that fuels rage of the 'Yellow Vests'
This worksheet is seemingly short and sweet as its main task is a classic listen-and-fill-the-gaps exercise.
However, it turns out that the words I've blanked out are rather difficult to catch even for higher-level students. Hence, after trying the exercise out with a group of intermediate+ learners, I added a table with the words students are supposed to insert as they listen to the report. Depending on the level of your class you can raise the bar and have them cover the table as you play the video. For lower-level students, you can tell them to use the provided words to complete the text as a pre-listening exercise. If you go for the latter option, refrain from correcting their answers or explaining what the words mean at this stage. Play the recording and get your students to correct each other's answers instead. Then, go over the text again and have them guess from the context what the unknown words mean. Use the questions from the next exercise to open a discussion or set an in-class writing task.
Follow-up idea: In order to revise the vocabulary from the listening task, next time you see your students ask them to look at the table from Task 1 (and cover the full transcript). You can get them to write a report from the Bastille Day celebrations in 2019 using ALL the words from the list. The first student/pair of students to finish the task wins and can read out the report while the rest of the class listen out for the words from the table, check if they are used correctly and offer their own alternatives if needed. For a less challenging revision exercise, you can ask your students to take one or two words and report on what they remember from the video using the word(s) or simply make any sentences with them putting them in their own context.