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    Event hospitality

    The fifth lesson plan in this series by Keith Harding is available at two levels - elementary and intermediate - and contains comprehensive teacher's notes and student worksheets. The elementary lesson practices phrases and vocabulary on topics such as offering help and serving food, while the intermediate lesson practises more detailed language relating to team-building and event planning.

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    Dictionary skills: Science and technology

    A dictionary skills lesson by Tim Bowen about science and technology. Learners practice using dictionaries to check meaning and for vocabulary development.

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    Assessment matters: Portfolios

    Adrian Tennant explains how student portfolios can be organized and maintained, and outlines some of the advantages and disadvantages of using them for assessment.

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    Your English: Idioms: crime and the law

    It's been murder waiting for Tim Bowen's latest instalment of idioms, but it's here now!

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    Cook to the Beat

    A song video and interactive games on the subject of cooking.

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    Your English: Phrasal verbs: some lonely phrasal verbs 4

    For all those who have been hankering afterTim Bowen's lonely phrasal verbs, here is his latest instalment in which he talks about the railways in Britain.

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    My favourite onestopclil resource is ...

    A selection of your favourite onestopclil resources. Why not try out something different this month?

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    Study skills for CLIL

    This series explores study skills that equip students when learning curriculum subjects through the medium of English. Cognitive, academic, thinking and process skills are developed alongside language skills in the CLIL classroom, providing students with life-long learning skills. This series of articles and practical examples will help you to incorporate ...

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    I like onestopclil because ...

    "... it is revolutionary and enhances my lessons in a way learners can profit tremendously from content and language learning."

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    Article: Skills for CLIL

    In this article John Clegg outlines the language and learning skills which a learner learning a subject through the medium of English as a second language (L2) requires.

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    Editorial: A focus on vocabulary

    In this month's editorial Keith Kelly takes you through the range of resources on onestopclil that help you support your student's subject-specific language development. He also reviews the new resources available this month.

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    TKT: Content-obligatory language

    In the first part of her series on language for CLIL, Kay Bentley explains what content-obligatory language is, how it affects CLIL teaching and what do you need to know about content-obligatory language for TKT: CLIL.

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    Your English: Collocations: run

    Shall we run Tim Bowen's latest article on the word run and its collocates? Oh, go on then!

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    Process skills and data-handling for CLIL

    Jean Brewster looks at how learners have to develop process skills to interact successfully with content. The benefits of using graphic organizers is explored with practical examples and accompanying worksheets to help you try out some of the techniques examined.

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    TKT CLIL Language

    In this series, Kay Bentley focuses on one item in the TKT: CLIL Glossary, explaining - with examples - what the term means and why it is important in the CLIL context.

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    The language dimension of CLIL

    Keith Kelly argues that language, and an explicit focus on it, is at the heart of CLIL methodology.

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    Holiday reps

    The fourth lesson plan in this series by Keith Harding is available at two levels - elementary and intermediate - and contains comprehensive teacher's notes and student worksheets. The elementary lesson gives students practice using the present simple for duties and routines, and describing job skills, while the intermediate lesson practises dealing with problems and difficulties, and softening angry language.

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    Business Spotlight: Moving down under

    In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, Nerida Frost talks about how she made the move from Germany to New Zealand with her family.

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    Adjective dominoes: Order of adjectives

    A domino game at intermediate level to practise using adjectives in the correct order that can be played as a group game or a mingling game.

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    Pronunciation skills: Stress in compound nouns

    This lesson focuses on stress patterns in compound nouns. Students form compounds to fit definitions then practise them by asking questions.