All Teenagers articles – Page 39

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Lesson Share: TV and film

Catherine Zgouras wins the Lesson Share competition with this entertainment-based activity in which students can learn about TV and film, and practise irregular verbs and the past simple.

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Beyond: Arts and Media: Newspapers

In this two-part lesson, students look at and discuss different newspaper websites, learn about newspaper vocabulary, and write their own newspaper story.

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100 years ago: Was / were

Students take part in a team competition to practise was, were, wasn’t and weren’t.

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Matura: 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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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Movie review

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students use pictures to write their own film review developing the following life skills: expressing opinions, analysing information and critical thinking.

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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Reviews

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students brainstorm vocabulary for writing a restaurant review, read some example reviews and write their own developing the following life skills: expressing an opinion, critical thinking (analysis and evaluation).

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Macmillan Life Skills: Time Management – What are you doing next week?

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students make plans for the following week using an agenda developing the following life skills: time management and planning.

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Lesson Share: Selling a winning idea

Gabrielle Jones wins the Lesson Share competition with this marketing-based activity in which students can learn to describe a process, ask and answer questions about a product, and practise being persuasive.

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Beyond: Knowledge: The brain

In this three-part lesson, students do a quiz about the human brain and test their memories, discover which side of their brain is dominant and find out about Albert Einstein.

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Reading maze: Third conditional

Students take part in a small-group reading maze game to practise the third conditional.

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Matura: 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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Macmillan Life Skills: Time Management – Time is money

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss the metaphor time is money and other time-related expressions developing the following life skills: time management and prioritisation.

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Lesson Share: Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Short answer questions

In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students become experts on obscure topics and practice skimming to find answers to questions their classmates have written developing the following life skills: analysing and extracting key information, evaluating content of a reply or argument, and time management.

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Matura: 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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Lesson Share: What does the colour of your clothes say about you?

Monika Szalwinska-Garbaruk wins the Lesson Share competition with this quiz-based activity designed to generate useful vocabulary to describe personality.

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Beyond: Arts and Media: Television

In this two-part lesson, students discover if they are TV addicts, and learn about adverbs of frequency, TV vocabulary and types of TV programmes.

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Card game: Present simple

Students take part in a small-group card game to practise the present simple.

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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: Dictionaries

In this lesson, students complete an information-gap activity about Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary, learn how to be better dictionary users, identify parts of speech and compete in a dictionary quiz.

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Have we met? Present perfect and past simple

Students take part in a whole-class role-play to practise using the present perfect, then switching to the past simple.