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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.

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Cambridge English Preliminary: Speaking Part 3

Guidance for teachers preparing candidates for Part 3 of the Speaking paper of the Cambridge Preliminary Exam.

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American English: In the classroom

Teaching the vocabulary of the classroom used in American English.

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IELTS exam orientation lesson - answer key