All Speaking articles – Page 9

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Business Spotlight: “There is a tremendously high ‘level of service’ expectation”

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about an Englishman who took his business idea to New York where he found great professional and financial success.

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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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Language for ... clothes shopping

This lesson provides students with key expressions and vocabulary for typical conversations in a clothes shop.

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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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Business Spotlight: Wish you weren’t here

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the benefits of annual leave.

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Language for ... job interviews

This lesson provides students with the key expressions needed for a job interview.

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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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Business Spotlight: Your plan for 2020

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, offers 20 tips that can help everybody further their career. 

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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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Language for ... the supermarket

This lesson provides students with vocabulary related to supermarket shopping and speaking to supermarket staff.

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Business Spotlight: Manna from heaven?

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about quantitative easing (QE) and what effects it could or might have on individuals and industry.

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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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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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Celebrations: Kwanzaa

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

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Business Spotlight: How to deal with imposter syndrome

This lesson based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the psychological phenomenon of imposter syndrome and how it can affect people in their work.

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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.

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Language for ... giving a presentation

This lesson provides students with key expressions for preparing and giving a presentation.

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Celebrations: Advent

In this lesson, available at two levels, students learn about celebrating Advent in Germany.

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Business Spotlight: Communication to arrange communication is now normal

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how our ways of communicating have changed over the past few years, as a result of electronic communication.