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Celebrations: Christmas Cracker Quiz

In this lesson and Christmas quiz, students read about the history of a great British tradition—the Christmas cracker!

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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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Elementary news lesson: Actor Sean Connery has died

December 2020: A look at the life and career of the irreplaceable Sir Sean Connery

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Lesson Share: First Conditional Ads

Svetlana Gavrilović wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to help you practise the first conditional using ads. 

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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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Elementary news lesson: 2020—The year of fires and a pandemic

November 2020: Before the pandemic, what was the main story on the news?

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Lesson Share: Halloween — Which monster are you?

Thais Casson wins this month’s Lesson Share with a Halloween quiz lesson.

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Online Education: Assessing students’ needs and lacks

Chia Suan Chong looks at different ways teachers can use diagnostic testing, integrative testing, and self-assessment to help their students learn more effectively.

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Lesson Share: Dilemmas

Rhiannon Stone wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson discussing dilemmas.

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Online Education: Evaluation and Assessment when Teaching Online

Russell Stannard explores how to use online tools to informally evaluate and assess learners.

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Online Education: Online Safety

Jo Budden explores the impact that increased use of online technology can have on children’s safety.

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Language for … helping others to understand you

This lesson provides students with key expressions and techniques for explaining ideas and helping others to understand you.

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Lesson Share: TV shows

Julian Burnley wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson discussing TV shows.

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Business News Lessons: Cyber Security - the danger may be closer to home

July 2020: In this lesson, available at two levels, students research cyber security and present ideas for implementing it in a company.

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Online Education: Engaging Teens? It’s Not All About Technology …

Anna Hasper looks at the importance of engaging teenage learners.

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25th June 2020: "A joyful thing": The man who wrote his wife a poem every day for 25 years

Actor Peter Gordon wrote poems for his wife Alison for over two decades even continuing after her death. 

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18th June 2020: Fiji returns to barter system as Covid-19 hits economy

Bartering is back! As people in the Pacific nations lose jobs, they create a trading system on Facebook.

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11th June 2020: Irish pubs use vans and drones to lift spirits

Ireland’s 7,000 pubs, 50,000 staff and millions of customers are in crisis. Time for some blue-sky thinking …

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4th June 2020: How seniors are learning to lead more digital lives

A generation who grew up with black-and-white TV are now video calling like teenagers – and for many, the transition has been relatively painless.

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Flashcards: Summer (US)

An American English set of flashcards on the topic of the summer, to print and use in class.