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Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Worksheets: Secondary

The Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship (ESDC) program is a Macmillan Education initiative whose vision is to design, deliver, and promote lessons, not only to develop students’ English skills, but also transform the world for the better.

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Spooky Joy! Halloween Game Cards

A set of game cards and activities with Halloween and fantasy vocabulary.

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Controversial Issues: Secondary (A2)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme

This worksheet and its teacher’s notes can help your students critically examine opinions on a controversial issue, including their own.

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Responsibility for Health: Secondary (A2)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme

This worksheet and its teacher’s notes can help your students identify personal responsibility for health in their community.

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Perpetuating Views of the World: Secondary (B1)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme

This worksheet and its teacher’s notes can help your students identify personal responsibility for perpetuating certain views of the world and critically examine these.

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Societal and Governmental Priorities: Secondary (B1)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme

This worksheet and its teacher’s notes can help your students recognize that societal and governmental priorities exist and that they can be questioned.

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Connections Among Nations: Secondary (A1+)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme

This worksheet and its teacher’s notes can help your students identify the interdependence of nations.

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Global Citizens: Secondary (A1+)—Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship Programme

This worksheet and its teacher’s notes can help your students identify what it is to be a global citizen through specific examples.

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Tech Tools for Teachers: Managing class interaction in online learning

By using a  variety of interaction patterns, online learning can become much more dynamic. This article lists the advantages and tips of a key part of online learning: breakout rooms.

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Business Spotlight: Your plan for 2020

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, offers 20 tips that can help everybody further their career. 

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Business Spotlight: Manna from heaven?

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about quantitative easing (QE) and what effects it could or might have on individuals and industry.

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Business Spotlight: How to deal with imposter syndrome

This lesson based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the psychological phenomenon of imposter syndrome and how it can affect people in their work.

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Advancing Learning: Developing real conversation skills

What is ‘conversation’ and how can teachers improve students’ conversation skills?  This article, by Kateryna Protsenko, looks at the different ways to improve this skill.

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Advancing Learning: EMI: English as a medium of instruction

What are the challenges of teaching curriculum subjects through English at Primary level? Liz McMahon looks at some of the issues.

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Business Spotlight: Communication to arrange communication is now normal

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how our ways of communicating have changed over the past few years, as a result of electronic communication.

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Advancing Learning: Confessions from an obsessive language learner: what I have learnt from continually studying languages for 32 years

Russell Stannard details how his own language learning has given him insights into how to better teach his students.

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Business Spotlight: Your workplace’s best friend?

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about taking pets into work.

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Advancing Learning: How to approach essay writing

What different approaches to essay writing are there and how can they help your learners? Academic English specialist and teacher trainer Kerry Boakes explains three different approaches to essay writing and offers practical tips on how they can be used in the classroom.

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Advancing Learning: Helping very young learners improve their collaboration skills

Introducing collaborative tasks in a preschool setting can be daunting. Young learner expert Sarah Hillyard offers her tips and advice for teaching young learners how to collaborate, as well as suggesting activities that can help them learn through collaboration. 

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Advancing Learning: Multisensory learning in the inclusive classroom

Maria Byrne, Affiliate Trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) and lead tutor on the NILE Learning Differences and Inclusion course, shares her experience of working with dyslexic teens and suggests some simple, multisensory learning techniques that can help learners with dyslexia in the classroom.