All Advanced articles – Page 43
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British English: Winning – worksheet and teacher's notes
To highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases related to winning and losing in sports.
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Professional development: teachers using broken English
Advice on how to tackle the problem of teachers using broken English.
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Minimal resources: Building dialogue
Scott Thornbury gives us some great tips and ideas for building dialogue in speaking activities.
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Vocabulary: while, whilst, burned, burnt
A discussion about using 'while' versus 'whilst' and 'burned' versus 'burnt'.
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Types of business
Students practise a range of different skills in relation to types of business.
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ArticleExams: FCE or CAE cloze practice games
Three games to liven up exam class practice for the open cloze exam tasks, and to make sure students really know their way around the exam.
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Cambridge ESOL: Skills for Life: Computers
This lesson aims to help students learn vocabulary associated with computers.
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Lesson Share: Dictations: Cannibalizing warmers
These three warmers were created by taking parts of diifferent activities and switching them around to create new activities.
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Lesson Share: Team games: The categories game
This activity can be used to recycle or brainstorm vocabulary and is appropriate for all levels.
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Lesson Share: Spelling: Word chain
This warmer/lesson filler gets students to focus on a topic and listen to their classmates.
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Lesson Share: Spelling: Proofreading challenge
A warmer to practise correcting spelling and punctuation.
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Life changes
An American English worksheet to guess what has happened to change people's lives by listening to sentences about their past life and how they are coping with the new situation.
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Lesson Share: Pictures: The character of music
A fun activity in which students pair up pieces of music with adjectives.
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Methodology: teaching rhythm and stress with Chinese students
Advice and suggestions on how to teach rhythm and stress to Chinese students.
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Lesson Share: Energizers: The circle game
This game can be used to revise vocabulary or as a means of learning new words. Its main function, however, is as a physical activity designed to get the students moving around and revive tired minds.
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Lesson Share: Exchanging information: Life circle
Students are often curious about the life of their teacher outside their professional role, and this activity is useful for opening up to a new class as a person, and not just as a teacher.
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Warmer/FillerGrammar: Name that city—The cost of living
Ever wondered how expensive it is to live in Paris? Is it more expensive than living in Cairo or Kuala Lumpur? With this worksheet your students can practice comparisons while learning interesting facts on living in these cities.
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Methodology: using comic strips in class
Tim Bowen gives practical tips and suggestions on how to use comic strips in class.