All Adults articles – Page 63

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    Business Spotlight: Out of office

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about how more employees are now working away from the office, also known as teleworking. 

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    Board game: Indefinite pronouns

    A board game activity at intermediate level to practise using some-, any-, every-, no- + -one, -thing, -where.

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    Tech Tools for Teachers: Podcasting

    In the first instalment of his brand-new series, Nik Peachey looks at podcasting and how it can be used to help students develop their listening and speaking skills both inside and outside the classroom. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on podcasting and a downloadable lesson plan.

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    Topics: Identity

    Students are introduced to the topic of identity in this instalment of Adrian Tennant’s Topics series. The lesson is available at two language levels (Pre-intermediate and Intermediate +) and gives students practice in reading, listening and speaking skills, as well as exercises focusing on grammar and vocabulary. 

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    Business Spotlight: Masters of the universe

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how ordinary people can help provide information required for the advancement of scientific, environmental and humanitarian projects.

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: The shape of English grammar

    Simon Mumford wins the competition again with a very visual lesson that uses diagrams to revise grammar constructions.

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    Mingling activity: Future continuous

    A whole-class mingling activity at intermediate level to practise will be + -ing.

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    Grammarman

    Never fear! Grammarman is here to help your students with their punctuation problems and provide syntax solutions in the form of a comic-strip worksheet.

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    Merry Christmas

    This mini-play features two women in a toy shop talking about what to buy their loved ones for Christmas. The lesson contains a downloadable mp3 audio file and a lesson plan with student worksheets and teacher’s notes.

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    Business Spotlight: Far from home

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is about culture shock and explores the causes, symptoms and how to cope with it. 

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: The accident

    Mandeep Locham wins the Lesson Share competition for a second time with a lesson that uses the subject of workplace accidents as a basis to revise the past tenses.

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    Situations: wish

    A team game at upper intermediate level to practise I wish I had …, I wish I could …, I wish you would … .

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    The Gift of the Magi: Part 2

    This advanced-level story is set in New York at Christmas in the early 1900s. It is about a young married couple who are poor but very much in love, and want to buy each other the best Christmas present possible. The story is told in two parts; each part contains audio and an accompanying lesson plan written by Ceri Jones, which includes teacher’s notes, student worksheets and a full transcript and glossary. 

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    The Gift of the Magi: Part 1

    This advanced-level story is set in New York at Christmas in the early 1900s. It is about a young married couple who are poor but very much in love, and want to buy each other the best Christmas present possible. 

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    Reading: The Amish

    A worksheet with reading and comprehension activities on the origins and lives of the Amish people.

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    Topics: Jobs

    Students are introduced to the topic of jobs in this instalment of Adrian Tennant’s Topics series. The lesson is available at two language levels (Pre-intermediate and Intermediate +) and gives students practice in reading, listening and speaking skills, as well as exercises focusing on grammar and vocabulary. 

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    Business Spotlight: The Golden State?

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, is written by an American expat who talks about how the situation in her home state of California has changed in recent years.

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: Pawn shop

    Maria Sándor’s winning lesson incorporates a role-play that practises both negotiation skills and the present simple vs present continuous.  

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    Team competition: Reported commands

    A team competition at upper intermediate level to practise the reported commands He/She told you to … and He/She said to …

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    Your English: Idioms: teeth

    Tim Bowen gets his teeth into more than a mouthful of idioms.