All Pre-Intermediate articles
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Advancing Teaching: Online Interactive Lessons
Learn about how to create interactive online lessons in this Advancing Teaching article and video.
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Career Readiness: A2 Science
Read about Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space and what made her famous.
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Advancing Teaching: An introduction
Our Advancing Teaching series features videos which advise teachers on and explain key concepts and methodology in ELT.
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Advancing Teaching: Communicative Language Teaching
Learn about Communicative Language Teaching in this Advancing Teaching article and video.
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Online Education: Learning for themselves—developing learner independence
Anna Hasper examines what learner independence means and gives practical suggestions to help young learners take more responsibility for their learning.
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Online Education: Assessing students’ needs and lacks
Chia Suan Chong looks at different ways teachers can use diagnostic testing, integrative testing, and self-assessment to help their students learn more effectively.
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Flashcards: Summer (US)
An American English set of flashcards on the topic of the summer, to print and use in class.
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Flashcards: Summer (UK)
A British English set of flashcards on the topic of the summer, to print and use in class.
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Celebrations: Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May)
In this lesson, available at two levels, students read a text about Cinco de Mayo and create a multiple-choice quiz for others to do.
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Language for ... medical emergencies
This lesson provides students with key expressions related to health, the human body and phoning the emergency services.
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Lesson Share: My bucket list
Karolina Wyrzykowska wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson about discussing things students would like to put on their bucket list.
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Everyday life: Describing your area/neighbourhood
In this lesson, available at two levels, students describe changes to an area they live in (or know well).
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Lesson Share: Problems, problems, problems
Susan Lucier-Ogawa wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson for practising how much/many, is there/are there any, a few/little/some/a lot of with countable and uncountable nouns.
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Language for ... clothes shopping
This lesson provides students with key expressions and vocabulary for typical conversations in a clothes shop.
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Everyday life: Getting to work
In this lesson, available at two levels, students ask and answer questions about their journey to work.
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International Women’s Day
In this lesson, available at two levels, students read a text about International Women’s Day, and write a short text about a female role model.
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Everyday life: Minor illnesses
In this lesson, available at two levels, students review vocabulary related to illness, injury and treatment.
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Celebrations: Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)
In this lesson, available at two levels, students read a text about Shrove Tuesday, complete a short survey and practise talking about survey results and preferences.
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Language for ... the supermarket
This lesson provides students with vocabulary related to supermarket shopping and speaking to supermarket staff.
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Language for ... the classroom
This lesson provides students with key expressions to use in class and language for talking about classroom objects.