All Teaching Notes articles – Page 14
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ArticleMatura: Speaking: Media and Communications
In this speaking lesson focusing on 21st-century communication, students learn about different ways of networking and keeping in touch.
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ArticleMatura: Writing: Nature and Environment
In this lesson focusing on nature and the environment, students can build their vocabulary and learn how to write about the natural world using descriptive language.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should staff have unlimited holidays?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, explores the question of unlimited holidays for staff.
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ArticleMatura: Writing: Sport
In this lesson focusing on sport, students learn how to describe the benefits of sport and how to use persuasive language.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Geek-in-chief
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo. Students discuss women in top positions and the character traits of their ideal boss.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: An impossible dream?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on the American Dream and life in the USA.
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ArticleMatura: Writing: Tourism
In this lesson focusing on writing reports, students learn how to summarize information, and to compare and contrast the information in tourism reports.
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ArticleMatura: Writing: World of Work
In this lesson focusing on writing emails, students learn to spot differences between formal and informal emails, and pick up useful phrases in an interview exercise.
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ArticleMatura: Writing: Modern Technologies
In this lesson focusing on writing, students learn to write comments on a blog and how to agree or disagree by giving and responding to opinions.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Selling yourself
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how to brand and sell yourself at work.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Invisible man
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s head of design, a man who could be famous, but isn’t.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Have marketers become spies?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, questions whether consumers are aware of how much they are being spied on and how their digital data is used.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: MOOCs: A rising tide
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the rising popularity of MOOCs and covers strategies for looking at the pronunciation of acronyms.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Quiet, please
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about being an introvert in, what can sometimes seem like, an extrovert’s world.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Low-cost air travel
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the emergence of low-cost travel and South West Airlines.
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Business Basics: Asking for help around the office
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise asking for help around the office. Exercises include: completing questions that ask for specific help, matching questions to answers and a role-play where students must ask the correct questions to get help.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should we ban fracking?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about whether hydraulic fracturing should be banned.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Wild West of new business
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the emergence of young, innovative companies funded by small investors through crowdfunding sites.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Whistle-blower: Karen Silkwood
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about union activist Karen Silkwood who exposed some scandalous business practices in her place of work.
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ArticleBusiness Basics: A job interview
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise basic language associated with job interviews. Exercises include: identifying vocabulary used in job adverts, listening to a job interview and completing the gaps, creating a CV and role-playing a job interview.