All Study Skills articles
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Vocabulary Builders: Words of Wisdom
Idiomatic phrases can make the English language really fun—learn ways to find out what they mean.
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Vocabulary Builders: An introduction
Check out the lesson plans and worksheets designed to help your students build their vocabulary.
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Vocabulary Builders: Finding what follows—Patterns in verbs, adjectives, and prepositions
Find out how learning patterns of words helps you to discover the patterns of the English language.
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Vocabulary Builders: The hunt is on!
Can’t find exactly the word you want to use when searching in an online dictionary? Here’s help for the hunt.
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Vocabulary Builders: Don’t lose it—use it!
Have you ever learnt a great new word only to forget it the very next day? Try three different ways to remember new words.
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Cambridge English: First Practice Tests
Practice tests for all aspects of the Cambridge English: First exam
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Cambridge English: Advanced Practice Tests
Practice tests for all aspects of the Cambridge English: Advanced exam
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IELTS: International English Language Test - a brief overview & exam orientation
A simple breakdown of the exam and what it entails for students.
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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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Beyond: Knowledge: Classrooms
In this lesson, students practise describing and comparing classrooms, design their dream classroom, evaluate and discuss school subjects and revise useful classroom language.
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Your English: Collocations: enhance
Enhance your understanding of collocations with a little help from Tim Bowen.
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Assessment matters: Exams extra (upper-intermediate to proficiency)
In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the exams materials available on onestopenglish outside of the main 'Exams' section and suggests how they could be used in your teaching.
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Assessment matters: Exams extra (elementary to intermediate)
In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the exams materials available on onestopenglish outside of the main 'Exams' section and suggests how they could be used in your teaching.
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Dictionary skills: Business
A dictionary skills lesson plan by Tim Bowen on the theme of business, to give learners practice in using the dictionary to check meaning and for vocabulary development.
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TKT: Module 1 – Aspects of the learner
These materials are designed to help trainees prepare for module 1 of the exam, in particular the learner characteristics aspect of the ‘Background to language learning’ section.
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TKT: Module 1: Part 1: Language skills: Lesson plan
These practice materials are designed to help you with Module 1: Part 1: Language skills. In these materials you will think about the four skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing in terms of subskills.
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TKT: Module 2 – Appropriacy of aims
These materials are designed to help trainees prepare for module 2 of the exam, in particular the lesson aims aspect of the ‘Planning and preparing a lesson or sequence of lessons’ section.
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Cambridge English Preliminary: Writing
Guidance for teachers preparing candidates for the Writing paper of the Cambridge Preliminary Exam.
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TKT: Module 1 – Thinking about the role of error
These materials are designed to help trainees prepare for module 1 of the exam, in particular the ‘Background to language learning’ section, and focuses on the role of error in the language learning process.
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Talking business
In this article taken from ENGLISH TEACHING professional magazine, Alex Case discusses the importance of teaching pronunciation to Business English students.