All Mixed Ability articles – Page 10
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Film and TV: Nature documentaries
In this lesson, students practise speaking, listening and using new language about nature documentaries.
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ArticleFilm and TV: Action movies
In this lesson, students practise speaking, listening and using new language about action movies.
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Teaching creatively
This series of articles and lesson ideas by Chaz Pugliese explores what it means to be creative in the classroom, why creativity is important in a learning context and how teachers can become more creative in an ELT setting.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 12: Making proposals
In the twelfth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn about the language of corporate responsibility through future forms, conditionals and modals.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 11: Presentations
In the eleventh lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn different ways of starting a presentation, to describe charts and graphs, and how to invite and deal with questions.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 10: Setting personal goals
In the tenth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students can talk about setting and achieving work-based goals, how happy they are in their work, and what changes could be made to improve their performance.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 9: Dilemmas
In this lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn about dealing with dilemmas at work and how to be objective.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 8: Negotiations
In the eighth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students can talk about a variety of negotiation topics, discuss their own negotiation experiences and act out a role-play in front of the class.
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Lesson Share: Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Short answer questions
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students become experts on obscure topics and practice skimming to find answers to questions their classmates have written developing the following life skills: analysing and extracting key information, evaluating content of a reply or argument, and time management.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 7: Networking and small talk
In the seventh lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk with opening and follow-up questions, discuss a variety of small-talk topics and learn language to introduce a third person into a conversation.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Learning styles
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students interview each other about how they learn English best developing the following life skills: recognising and appreciating different social and personal styles of learning.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Communicate / Cooperate – Blackout
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students role play being stuck in a blackout developing the following life skills: adaptability and decision making.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Communicate / Cooperate – A class or company newsletter
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students work together as a whole class to create a one-page newsletter developing the following life skills: cooperation, communication and time management.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 6: Moving premises
In the sixth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss moving premises and decide which employees could work from home, make a decision on which department could be outsourced and practise writing an email to submit a tender.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 5: Restructuring
In the fifth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss the financial crisis, practise writing emails, use idioms and phrases to discuss a difficult business situation and role-play a company meeting.
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Survival Guide: First classes
Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 4: Situations vacant
In the fourth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what skills, qualifications and experience are needed to do a particular job well, write CVs and formulate interview questions.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 3: Company profile
In the third lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company and write a company profile.
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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 2: Company structure
In the second lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students will complete an organogram of the fictional company, talk about their own company’s structure and invent their own cards.
