Brain surgeon

Lionel is a brain surgeon, and he wants everybody at the party to know it… until a rocket scientist arrives! Watch a famous BBC sketch (That Mitchell & Webb Look), understand why the punchline works, practise question tags and their intonation, then film your own show-off.

Final task: in groups of four, act out a new version of the sketch with a new show-off and your own punchline, and film it in one shot. The assessment grid is in the last step.

These activities are designed to support teachers, who can include them in their own lesson sequences.

• Start the activities “It's not exactly brain surgery, is it?” He says it to everybody… until the wrong guest arrives.