All Pre-Intermediate articles – Page 10
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Macmillan Life Skills: People Management – Problems with people
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss some problems at work and then report on the discussions developing the following life skills: giving advice and stating your opinions.
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ArticleBusiness 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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Lesson Share: TV and film
Catherine Zgouras wins the Lesson Share competition with this entertainment-based activity in which students can learn about TV and film, and practise irregular verbs and the past simple.
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100 years ago: Was / were
Students take part in a team competition to practise was, were, wasn’t and weren’t.
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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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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Movie review
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students use pictures to write their own film review developing the following life skills: expressing opinions, analysing information and critical thinking.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Reviews
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students brainstorm vocabulary for writing a restaurant review, read some example reviews and write their own developing the following life skills: expressing an opinion, critical thinking (analysis and evaluation).
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Macmillan Life Skills: Time Management – What are you doing next week?
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students make plans for the following week using an agenda developing the following life skills: time management and planning.
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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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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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Beyond: Arts and Media: Television
In this two-part lesson, students discover if they are TV addicts, and learn about adverbs of frequency, TV vocabulary and types of TV programmes.
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Card game: Present simple
Students take part in a small-group card game to practise the present simple.
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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: Networking – Meeting people
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students practise sharing business card information developing the following life skills: networking and making connections.
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Beyond: Knowledge: Dictionaries
In this lesson, students complete an information-gap activity about Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary, learn how to be better dictionary users, identify parts of speech and compete in a dictionary quiz.
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Lesson Share: The five senses of a verb
Kat Law wins the Lesson Share competition with this fun lesson, designed to build confidence and improve fluency through oral practice of different verb forms.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Self / Social – Are you experienced?
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students complete a questionnaire about life experiences and find out what their score means developing the following life skills: self-awareness and challenging stereotypes.
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Survival Guide: Using L1 in the classroom
Every language teacher has, at some point, felt guilty, puzzled and frustrated about their students’ overuse of their mother tongue in the classroom. In a monolingual context this can become quite a problem.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Graffiti
In this lesson, students read about famous walls and graffiti, create their own graffiti artwork, describe a bedroom wall and learn wall idioms.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Self / Social – My kind of people
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students complete sentences about people, things and places they like. Then, they ask each other questions to find out about their classmates’ preferences developing the following life skills: expressing your opinion and accepting diversity.
