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Teaching toolGame Cards: The Alphabet
Use this fun set of Alphabet game cards to practice the alphabet with your students.
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ArticleMacmillan Dictionary Blog: Metaphor
This article, by Dr Rosamund Moon, takes you through the fascinating world of metaphor and discovers how everyday words and phrases can have deeper, metaphorical meanings.
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Teaching toolMacmillan Dictionary Red Words & Stars Pack
Learn about Red Words and how they can be utilized with the Macmillan Dictionary Red Words and Stars pack.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: High Five!
Spread positive energy among your students using these inspirational banners!
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Today I Want to Be…
Encourage your students to express themselves with this start-up routine… and let them be!
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Words & Senses
Develop students’ vocabulary and self-awareness with this mindfulness practice.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Class Management Coins
Improve the well-being of your class with these mindfulness coins.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: After Class Emotion Tracker
Set up social emotional routines that help your students keep track of their emotions.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Emotion Cards
Give your students tools to identify and manage their emotions in class.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Reading Coupons
Give your students a coupon to build positive reading habits that boost their imagination.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Appreciating Others
Encourage positive behavior by helping students show appreciation to others with this classroom routine.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Pairwork Rules
Are you looking for classroom management routines? Set up pairwork rules with this interactive poster!
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Five Senses
Let’s build a positive class environment with this mindfulness practice.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: Pairing Cards
Add some variety to your class and use these appealing cards to pair up students.
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Teaching toolSocial Emotional Tools: The Positive Box
Add some colour to your class and build positive relationships among students through a writing routine.
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Business needs analysis: Negotiating a syllabus
A lesson by Alex Case that you can use with a new class as part of conducting a needs analysis. In the lesson, students practise the language of negotiating and presenting conclusions, whilst also thinking about what they would like to do in class.
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ArticleTeaching Business English: Improving a needs analysis
In this article, Ed Pegg talks about how to improve the information that teachers can get from a needs analysis.
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Teaching Business English: Understanding different accents
In this article, Ed Pegg talks about how to help your students understand different accents in a business context.
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ArticleTeaching Business English: Improving fluency
In this article, Ed Pegg talks about how to improve the fluency of advanced Business English students.
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Teaching Business English: Workplace performance
In this article, Ed Pegg deals with how to help Business English students when you’ve never seen them at work.