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    Lesson Share: Complaining with confidence

    Genevieve White’s winning lesson allows students to practise the art of complaining in two entertaining role-plays.

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    Change: Geography

    Keith Kelly provides a comprehensive lesson plan, with both a language and content focus, accompanied by a list of verbs and nouns associated with change and interaction from the area of geography.

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    Your English: Collocations: climate

    How are you coping in the current economic climate? Tim Bowen is here to help with a shower of collocations.

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    Owl Hall: Episode 11: Kara’s story two-part special – Part 2

    In the second part of the eleventh episode, Kara tells John the full story about Martin and the fire …You can download the mp3 file for Episode 11 – Part 2, plus a lesson plan (with student worksheets, full transcript and answer keys) written by Lindsay Clandfield.

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    Your English: Idioms: hell

    Our resident hellraiser, Tim Bowen, recalls a story about some neighbours from hell.

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    Sounds: The Pronunciation App: Lesson plans

    The activities in these lesson plans are short and basic, enabling you to incorporate pronunciation into any part of any lesson using Sounds: The Pronunciation App. Choose the most relevant lesson plan to you or download all three!

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    Your English: Phrasal verbs: let

    Tim Bowen will never let you down when it comes to phrasal verbs.

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    Your English: Word grammar: proof

    This article by Tim Bowen has been meticulously proofread, so hopefully you won’t find any mistakes!

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    Nik Peachey

    Nik Peachey, digital guru and author of our Tech Tools for Teachers series, talks about the highs and lows of his personal experiences of education and explains how a lazy workaholic (his own words) came to get so interested in learning technologies. He also imparts some valuable advice on becoming ...

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    Top Trumps activities pack

    The Top Trumps activities pack comprises 30 enjoyable activities and games to use with primary and lower secondary children learning English, all written by young learner expert Carol Read. The activities are generic and suitable to use with any pack of Top Trumps cards. The first 10 activities are available ...

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    Top Trumps activities pack: 11-20

    In her second instalment, Carol Read presents ten more activities suitable to use with any pack of Top Trumps cards. The activities are available to Staff Room members.

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    Tech Tools for Teachers: Digital Narrative

    In the second instalment of his series, Nik Peachey looks at digital narrative and how it can be used to help students develop their communication skills both inside and outside the classroom. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on digital narrative, a downloadable lesson plan and a printable how-to guide.

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    Bliss

    This advanced-level story, by Katherine Mansfield, is set in London in the early 1900s. It is about a woman called Bertha who is overcome with happiness because she has everything – but all is not as it seems. It is told in four parts; each part contains audio and an ...

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    Bliss: Part 1

    This advanced-level story, by Katherine Mansfield, is set in London in the early 1900s. It is about a woman called Bertha who is overcome with happiness because she has everything – but all is not as it seems. It is told in four parts; each part contains audio and an ...

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    Owl Hall: Episode 11: Kara’s story two-part special – Part 1

    In the first part of the eleventh episode, Kara tells John about the ‘incident’…You can download the mp3 file for Episode 11 – Part 1, plus a lesson plan (with student worksheets, full transcript and answer keys) written by Lindsay Clandfield.

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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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    Roots: Science

    Keith Kelly provides a comprehensive lesson plan with both a language and content focus accompanied by an alphabetical list of root words used in forming words from the area of science.

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    Your English: Collocations: optimism

    Tim Bowen is buoyantly optimistic that you can apply and teach these collocations with ease.

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    Owl Hall: Episode 10: An important discovery

    In the tenth episode, Kara and John go to the house on the hill and find out that Owl Hall is under surveillance …You can download the mp3 file for Episode 10, plus a lesson plan (with student worksheets, full transcript and answer keys) written by Lindsay Clandfield.