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Explain! Past perfect continuous
A speaking card game at intermediate level to practise the use of past perfect continuous.
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Business Basics: Greeting a visitor
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise greeting a visitor. Exercises include: completing a gap-fill, listening to a conversation, putting the stages of greeting a visitor into the correct order and devising a welcoming procedure.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Low-cost air travel
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the emergence of low-cost travel and South West Airlines.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Know Yourself – Phobias
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students explore phobias developing the following life skills: self-knowledge, communication and respecting diversity.
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Your English: Idioms: battle
It’s clear the battle lines have been drawn as Tim Bowen shows he’s fighting a running battle with these idioms.
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Teaching materials: Putting on a play
Long-term project work can be extremely rewarding for your English class and a theatre production may be ideal. Daniel Barber shares some valuable tips on putting on a play with your class.
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The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 2
The audio and activities for the second part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 2, Lady Bracknell and her daughter, Gwendolen, arrive. Jack will need Algernon’s help if he is going to propose to Gwendolen away from her mother.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: write (2)
Tim Bowen gives phrasal verbs a good write-up in this handy article.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Get Organised – Making arrangements
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students practise making arrangements with their classmates developing the following life skills: time management and prioritising.
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Your English: Collocations: fuss
Think collocations are just a fuss about nothing? Tim Bowen explains the collocates of this word with the minimum of fuss.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 14: 42,120km
In their fourteenth travelogue, the tuk tuk boys and Tommy meet Olinda, a Shipibo artisan with an inspiring story, chug their way over the Andes and beat all odds to make it to Buenos Aires.
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Survival Guide: The emergency activity file
Some of our favourite activities requiring little or no preparation - designed to be used in a minor or major emergency!
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ArticleBeyond on onestopenglish: Arts and Media
Karen Kovacs introduces this collection of topical lessons for teenagers related to art, television, literature, theatre, advertising, and the press. Students practise speaking and further subskills while being creative.
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ArticleBeyond on onestopenglish
Your teenage students will love using this fantastic series of British English lessons prepared by Karen Kovacs.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Literary lives
In this lesson, students read biographies, interview their partner and create questions to get information from their teacher.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde’s most popular play, which opened in 1895 to great success and has appeared regularly in theatres around the world ever since, has also been made into a film several times, most recently starring Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. Now Macmillan has made it accessible to learners of upper ...
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Business Basics: Asking for help around the office
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise asking for help around the office. Exercises include: completing questions that ask for specific help, matching questions to answers and a role-play where students must ask the correct questions to get help.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should we ban fracking?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about whether hydraulic fracturing should be banned.
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The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 1
The audio and activities for the first part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all onestopenglish users. In Part 1, Algernon receives a surprise visit from his good friend Jack, who has decided to declare his love for Algernon’s cousin. Before Algernon can agree to their marriage, he has one or two questions to ask.