All Grammar articles – Page 6

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    The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 3

    The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 3, Prince Edward finds himself out on the street, where everyone thinks he is a beggar boy. How will he get back into the palace?

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Get Thinking – Politics

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students read extracts from newspaper articles about politics as well as listen to a radio news story developing the following life skills: critical thinking and social responsibility.

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    The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 2

    The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 2, the kind-hearted prince gives Tom an invitation to lunch, to the surprise of the guards and servants. Both boys are interested to learn how the other one lives but their ...

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    The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 1

    An audio serialization of the elementary-level Macmillan Reader, The Prince and the Pauper, is told in sixteen chapters. Each chapter is accompanied by a comprehensive lesson plan written by Adrian Tennant, including teacher’s notes, with suggestions for extension activities, plus student worksheets and a full transcript and glossary. The ...

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Know Yourself – Have you ever ... ?

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students play a speaking board game developing the following life skills: analysing information, creativity and imagination.

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 10

    In this lesson by Frances Marnie, students cover language including: station, ticket, single and return. Printable resources include comprehensive step-by-step teacher’s notes, a student worksheet and flashcards.

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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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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 9

    In this lesson by Frances Marnie, students cover language including: dates, colours, like / don’t like and transport. Printable resources include comprehensive step-by-step teacher’s notes, a student worksheet and flashcards.

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 8

    In this lesson by Frances Marnie, students cover language including: months, family vocabulary, they / their and numbers 31-99. Printable resources include comprehensive step-by-step teacher’s notes, a student worksheet and flashcards.

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 7

    In this lesson by Frances Marnie, students cover language including What day is it?, today, tomorrow, yesterday, days of the week, I like / don’t like. Printable resources include comprehensive step-by-step teacher’s notes, a student worksheet and flashcards.

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 6

    In this lesson by Frances Marnie, students cover language including: How much is it?, Can I have…, days of the week, pounds, food and drink. Printable resources include comprehensive step-by-step teacher’s notes, a student worksheet and flashcards.

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 5 - How much is it?

    Help your absolute beginner ask how much things cost in English with this fantastic lesson by Frances Marnie. 

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 4 - What’s her name?

    Help your absolute beginner students learn to talk about other people’s names and origins with this lesson by Frances Marnie.

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 3 - How are you?

    Help your absolute beginner students learn to talk about how they feel and where they come from with this lesson by Frances Marnie.

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 2 - What's your phone number?

    Help your absolute beginner students learn to give and ask for phone numbers in English while practising numbers 0-9 with this lesson by Frances Marnie.

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    Absolute Beginners Series

    Frances Marnie introduces a series of ESOL lesson plans aimed at beginner-level students with little or no previous experience in English. 

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    Absolute Beginners: Unit 1 - Hello, what’s your name?

    Help your absolute beginner students learn to introduce themselves in English with this fantastic lesson by Frances Marnie.

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    Meet the Grammarman team

    Our very own dynamic duo, author Brian Boyd and story contributor Thom Kiddle, join forces to unveil (but not unmask!) the characters featured in the Grammarman comic strip.

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    Conclusions and findings: Geography

    Keith Kelly looks at examples of language used in making conclusions and findings from the area of geography, categorized by nouns, verbs, word groups and prepositions.

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    Generalizations: Science

    Keith Kelly looks at examples of language used in making generalizations from the area of science; these can be split into three broad groups: quantity, frequency and certainty.