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    Celebrations: Valentine’s Day

    Celebrate Valentine’s Day with your students using this romantic lesson and worksheets.

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    Celebrations: Carnival masks

    Students identify types of mask, read about masks and design a carnival mask. 

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    Celebrations: Chinese New Year

    It’s the Year of the Dragon! Help your students learn about the Chinese New Year and discover their animal signs with this engaging lesson.

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    Celebrations: Wild Australia Day

    In preparation for Australia Day, students do a quiz and discuss whether they would like to visit Australia.

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    Celebrations: Review of the year

    Students talk about the global events from the past year.

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    Celebrations: Christmas shopping

    Students learn about attitudes towards buying Christmas presents.

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    Celebrations: Let's dance

    In this lesson students will read about popular dances and learn to follow instructions.

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    Celebrations: St Andrew's Day

    In this lesson, students do a quiz about St Andrew’s Day, identify pictures about Scotland, and write a radio advert encouraging tourists to visit Scotland.

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    Celebrations: Cards for every occasion

    Students talk about sending and receiving cards for special occasions and design their own.

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    Celebrations: Halloween

    Have fun with your students this Halloween with this worksheet, including a puzzle and a horror story.

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    Celebrations: The four seasons

    Students draw and describe a picture and talk about the four seasons.

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    Celebrations: Special occasions

    Take your students through a tour of some of the most celebrated occasions worldwide with this lesson by Robert Campbell, Lindsay Clandfield, Gill Holley and Rob Metcalf.

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    Reading: The Amish

    A worksheet with reading and comprehension activities on the origins and lives of the Amish people.

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    Natural Materials

    In this lesson plan, students learn about the properties of silk, cotton, wool and leather, how these materials are produced and how they are used. A matching exercise helps students to learn new vocabulary such as ‘cocoon’, ‘crop’, ‘synthetic’ and ‘unravel’. Includes teacher’s notes with a list of useful websites ...

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    Angkor, Cambodia

    In this lesson plan, students read the article about the historic and sacred site of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The exercises focus on comprehension checking and word definition.

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    Winter wonderland

    In this lesson plan, students work in pairs and discuss Harbin, China’s ice lantern festival. Through the activity, students practise their speaking skills and the present perfect continuous tense.

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    Unusual laws from around the world

    In this lesson plan, students pose questions about unusual laws and discuss which ones they think are true. The exercise focuses on reading and speaking skills.

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    Great Composers

    This lesson plan will help to encourage an appreciation for classical music by introducing students to three great composers: Mozart, Liszt and Rachmaninov. Working together in pairs or in small groups, students learn about the composers’ lives and legacy through information gap, reading and matching exercises and also have an ...

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    Reading: How English is English?

    A worksheet with reading and vocabulary activities on the topic of the English language and its origins.

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    Reading: Django Reinhardt

    A reading worksheet about the life of the virtuoso jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Student exercises focus on comprehension and discussion.