All Listening articles – Page 11

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 8

    The audio and activities for the eighth part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 8, a very strange coincidence has far-reaching consequences for our romantic couples. But will it end happily for them all?

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    The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 6

    The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 6, Tom learns how to be a prince; just in time for the Grand Banquet. But terrible news arrives that means Tom won’t be a prince for much longer.

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    The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 5

    The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 5, while the rest of London is celebrating his Grand Banquet, Prince Edward continues to suffer under Mr Canty’s rule. But when Mr Canty finds himself a wanted criminal, Edward sees ...

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 7

    The audio and activities for the seventh part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 7, disaster is averted as the women forgive their fiancés to be but then an unwelcome visitor threatens to ruin the romantic scene once more …

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    Business Basics: Entertaining a business visitor

    In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise language for entertaining a business visitor. Exercises include: completing emails with the correct vocabulary, listening to a phone call, writing an itinerary, and role-playing questions and answers.

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    The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 4

    The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 4, while Edward is struggling with his predicament in the streets of London, Tom is having a very different, but just as troubling, experience in the palace.

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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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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 6

    The audio and activities for the sixth part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 6, the Worthing house receives another guest from London, this time Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen. Merriman the servant announces her arrival to Cecily. How will the women in ...

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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 Importance of Being Earnest: Part 5

    The audio and activities for the fifth part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 5, Jack expresses his anger at Algernon’s arrival to the country house by telling him to leave. Algernon, in love with Cecily, wants to spend more time ...

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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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    Business Basics: Socializing with clients

    In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise small talk about weather, hotels and travel. Exercises include: revising small talk vocabulary, ordering words to make questions, listening to small talk conversations in a business scenario and role-playing.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Get Thinking – Museums

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students read and listen to reviews about museums and discuss their own preferences developing the following life skills: learner autonomy, giving feedback and social responsibility.

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 4

    The audio and activities for the fourth part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 4, we meet Cecily, Jack’s young ward, and her governess, Miss Prism, at Jack’s country house. Cecily receives an unexpected visitor whom she is very pleased to ...

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 3

    The audio and activities for the third part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 3, the two friends are deciding what to do in the evening when Gwendolen returns unexpectedly to make secret plans with Jack. However, Algernon is listening to ...

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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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    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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    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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    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.