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    The Terror of Blue John Gap: Part 1

    This advanced-level story, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is set in the Peak District, England, in 1902. It tells of how a man uncovers the truth behind the legend of a mysterious monster. It is told in six parts; each part contains audio and an accompanying lesson plan written by ...

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    Art and Drawing: Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson

    This fascinating lesson focuses on perspective: students read an illustrated text on perspective in drawing, followed by true/false and vocabulary exercises. A listening exercise focuses on Claude Monet and Impressionism; a writing exercise gets students to recreate a text on the Parthenon. A pairwork collaborative project gets students to describe ...

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: Celebrity wedding planner

    Jodi Hope catches Royal Wedding fever with a love-themed winning lesson that practises modal verbs.

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    Guessing game: need

    A guessing activity at pre-intermediate level to practise the use of need, needn’t and Do you need …?

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    The Secret Garden: Chapter 7

    The audio and activities for the seventh chapter of this pre-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Mary gets to know her cousin …

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    People and the economy

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn about different jobs while practising the present simple, singular and plural nouns and prepositions of place.

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    Air and water transport

    This lesson plan highlights the similarities and differences between air and water transport.

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    A healthy diet

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn about a healthy diet and the origin of different foods while practicing the present tense, expressions of frequency, food vocabulary, time and days of the week.

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    Food preservation and recipes

    What foods should go in the fridge, freezer and cupboard? What do we need to make salad, sandwiches, ice cream and cake? (Yum.) Get your pupils to show off their culinary knowledge in these fun group activities.

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    Food classification

    Which foods do we get our carbohydrates, proteins and fats from? Through sentence completion and labelling activities, pupils learn that a healthy diet consists of a balance of these nutritional elements in this lesson plan.

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    The respiratory system

    In this lesson plan, pupils label the parts of the respiratory system and learn how air moves through the body.

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    The five senses II

    In this lesson plan, pupils study the five senses through picture matching and information gap activities. Includes optional exercises using students’ own senses.

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    The digestive system II

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn about nutrients and the anatomy and processes of their digestive system.

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    The circulatory system

    This lesson plan explains how the circulatory system works and introduce its main components.

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    Bones, muscles and joints

    A lesson plan with labelling and information gap activities to teach about the human body, including key vocabulary words.

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    The five senses I

    This lesson plan teaches the five senses, parts of the body and the auxiliary verb can.

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    Muscles and bones

    A lesson plan with matching and information gap activities to introduce the human muscle and bone system.

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    The digestive system I

    This lesson plan introduces the digestive system and its main components.

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    Body parts and movement

    Run! Jump! Kick! Throw! Catch! In this lesson plan, your class will not only learn these action verbs but also discover which muscles and body parts we use to perform these actions. Activities that are guaranteed to get the class moving.

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    Venn diagrams

    How many pupils are afraid of snakes but not of spiders? What share of the class likes strawberry ice cream? In this lesson plan, pupils read a text then complete a Venn diagram and pie charts. Warm up activities and project ideas engage young learners by encouraging them to discuss ...