The Cauldron is a cool London bar which appeared in 2018. Let's watch the video about it and choose what the people talk about

Stage aim: to practise listening for gist and detail based on the video about going out.

Exercise 1:

• Let the student
  go through new
  vocabulary and
  read the
  task before watching.
  Elicit the
  answers to the questions from the
  You can say section to
  help them
  predict what they are going to
  hear.
• Get them to
  guess the
  answers and then
  play the video.
• Play parts of the video
  again, if necessary.

Exercise 2:

• Get the student to
  read the
  task before watching the
  video again.
• Play some parts of the
  video twice. Make the
  transcript visible if the student experiences
  difficulties.

Do you know any interesting bars? Let's watch the video about the London bar Cauldron. What prices do you think they have there? Expensive or not? What ingredients do you think they use? Something usual? How do you think the pop-up started? Do you think somebody was a fan of fantasy?

• a cauldron /ˈkɔːldrən/ — a large round metal container used for cooking over a fire
• a Kickstarter — a special page on the website https://www.kickstarter.com/ where people can give money to help you start your business idea
• a property — a characteristic
• science fiction — books and films about space travel, new technology and other planets
• fantasy fiction — books and films about unreal lands, things and creatures
• dry ice — frozen carbon dioxide, used for keeping things very cold and for producing a gas that looks like smoke in musical and theatre performances
• to stick with something — to continue using something, not changing it
• to foam /fəʊm/ — to make bubbles

Matthew Cortland

• How the pop-up started
• What they use for their drinks
• The prices

David DuckWorth

• How the pop-up started
• What they use for their drinks
• The prices

Let's check how well you understand the video. Watch again and choose if these sentences are True or False

Would you like to go to the bar from the video? Why (not)?

1. Matthew Cortland studied programming and design.
   [True | False]
2. Matthew Cortland said that he wanted to make what he saw in films
   real.
   [True | False]
3. They like to use traditional ingredients at their bar.
   [True | False]
4. They don't use much dry
   ice.
   [True | False]
5. Visitors get 3 drinks.
   [True | False]

The bar from the video is an example of a theme bar. It's a Harry Potter theme bar. What kind of theme bars would you like to go to?