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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 (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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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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Celebrations: Coming Of Age

In this lesson, available at two levels, students read and discuss four short texts about four different coming of age celebrations around the world.

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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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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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Lesson Share: Improv storytelling

Christian Spiteri wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to improve confidence in telling stories.

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Lesson Share: Wishes and regrets

Svetlana Gavrilovic wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to practise expressing wishes and regrets using a variety of structures.

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Celebrations: Groundhog Day

In this lesson, students read a text about the American celebration of Groundhog Day, looking at the language involved.

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Everyday life: Exercise

In this lesson, available at two levels, students review language vocabulary related to exercise and fitness.

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Lesson Share: Winter

James Savery wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to introduce and practise a lexical set about winter.

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Everyday life: Typical dishes

In this lesson, available at two levels, students review language for describing food and food preferences.

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Celebrations: Kwanzaa

In this lesson students learn about celebrating Kwanzaa, its principles and symbols.

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Lesson Share: Communication skills for presentations

Melinda Gamlen wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson for practising non-verbal communication and sentence stress in presentations.