Weekly news lesson 342: 13th June 2013: Everest: tourism and climate change provide new challenges

Thu, 13 Jun 2013

Sixty years ago, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first to conquer Everest. Now, tourism in the area is booming but higher numbers of trekkers and climate change could be taking their toll on the world’s highest peak.

Classroom management: classroom discipline

Advice and suggestions on getting students to behave well in class and using an appropriate level of discipline.

Grammar: Past tense card game

A simple game designed to help with reviewing past tense questions and answers - (adaptable to other grammatical forms).

Speaking: Ordering a pizza

A roleplay lesson for elementary students. Functional language covered: requests, 'Can I have...?', 'I'd like...'. Target vocabulary includes numbers, money and food.

Your English: Word grammar: wild

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Teacher's survival kit

In the first instalment of the series, Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord give a run-down of the ten most important tools in a teacher’s locker, plus five survival tools for mobile devices.

Absolute Beginners: Unit 2

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Classification: Science

Keith Kelly looks at examples of the language of classification from the area of science, covering structures such as verb phrases, noun phrases and linking phrases.