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Skills for Problem Solving: Upper Intermediate—Learn From Your Mistakes

Help your students understand how sometimes the mistakes we make can be positive.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Intermediate—Consider Other People’s Needs and Preferences

 

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Skills for Problem Solving: Pre-Intermediate—Finding Ideas and Information

Help your students come up with new ideas and find specific information in order to use them.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Pre-Intermediate—Understand Your Learning Style

Help your students recognise what their learning style is.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Intermediate—Respect Another Person’s Personal Space

Help your students respect other people’s need for personal space and to protect their own.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Upper Intermediate—Consider the Consequences of Your Actions

Help your students think about how decisions they make can have long-term consequences.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Upper Intermediate—Empathising with Another Person’s Feelings

Help your students be more understanding of other people’s feelings.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Intermediate—Identify the Cause of an Argument

Help your students look at a problem from different angles, identify the cause, and suggest solutions.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Pre-Intermediate—Be Friendly to New Students

Help your students understand how to help new classmates adapt to a new environment.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Intermediate—Collaborate to Organise A Group Activity

Help your students collaborate effectively in order to work well as a group.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Pre-Intermediate—Different Ways to Say Hello

Help your students understand how to say hello in English in different situations.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Upper Intermediate—Work on Your Weaknesses

Help your students identify areas of weakness and come up with a plan to improve them.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Upper Intermediate—Positive And Negative Aspects of Taking Risks

Help your students assess the positive/negative aspects of taking risks and if a risk is worth taking.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Intermediate—Using Lists to Help Organise Your Time

Help your students create lists for time management with this problem-solving activity.

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Skills for Problem Solving: Pre-Intermediate—Be A Good Classmate

Help your students talk about appropriate and inappropriate behaviours in class with this problem-solving activity.

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Celebrations: Christmas Cracker Quiz

In this lesson and Christmas quiz, students read about the history of a great British tradition—the Christmas cracker!

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Lesson Share: Online restaurant review

Sarah Hall wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to help develop appropriate and authentic language used in online restaurant reviews.

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Celebrations: Inti Raymi—The festival of the sun

In this lesson, available at two levels, students read texts about the historical festival of Inti Raymi in modern day South America.

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Celebrations: Cinco de Mayo

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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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.