All Speaking articles – Page 29

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 7—Networking and small talk

In this lesson, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk and learn the language to introduce a third person into a conversation.

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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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Have we met? Present perfect and past simple

Students take part in a whole-class role-play to practise using the present perfect, then switching to the past simple.

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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: Networking – The office party

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students take part in a role-play which prompts them to gossip with colleagues and network with the president of the company developing the following life skills: networking, active listening and building confidence.

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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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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.

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Lesson Share: Alien trouble

Check out this lesson designed to improve communication skills… it’s out of this world!

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Evidence: Past modals

Students work together to decide who they think commited a burglary using evidence cards and practising past modals.

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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 16

The audio and activities for the final part of this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 16, we find out what happens to Miles. We also learn about Tom’s future and the life of the young king.

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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 15

The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 15, a new king is crowned but which of the boys wears the crown? Edward, son of Henry, the rightful heir to the throne or the poor beggar boy, ’King Tom’, ...

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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 14

The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 14, Tom rides through the streets of London on his way to Westminster Abbey and the coronation. He is enjoying his life as future king until a chance encounter with someone ...

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Macmillan Life Skills: Career / Work – Who gets the money?

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students work in groups to expand on a business idea and present it to the rest of the class developing the following life skills: critical thinking and citizenship.

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Macmillan Life Skills: Career / Work – CV Builder

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss the purpose of a CV and using the worksheet create their own CV developing the following life skills: gathering and organizing information, prioritization, motivation, goal setting and values.

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Lesson Share: The palm reader

Dimitra Eleftheriou-Ernst wins the Lesson Share competition with a fun lesson designed to practise making future predictions.

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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 13

The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 13, we hear about Tom’s life in the palace, and how he stops worrying.

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Imagine: Future perfect

Students write predictions about their partner. They use language such as ‘In ten year’s time’, ‘By this time tomorrow’ and ‘By 2050’ in order to practise the future perfect.