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Vocabulary Builders: Getting into a love of phrasal verbs

Get your students into a love of phrasal verbs and teach them about the three most common verbs used with phrasal verbs.

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Vocabulary Builders: Watch your vocabulary take off!

See your students’ vocabulary take off as they learn all about forming and using phrasal verbs.

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Vocabulary Builders: Getting the hang of get, go and take

Boost your students’ vocabulary with expressions using three of the most commonly used English verbs: get, go and take.

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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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Lesson Share: IELTS Speaking

Laura Higgins wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to help you practise the IELTS Speaking exam—Part 1.

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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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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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Online Education: Teaching Young Learners Online

Joanne Ramsden explores how to use a digital connection to teach children in their own homes. 

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Lesson Share: Wishes and regrets

Svetlana Gavrilovic wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to practise expressing wishes and regrets using a variety of structures.

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Meg Rivers Cakes

A pairwork activity to exchange information about a small business.

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Meeting people

A groupwork speaking activity to exchange personal information.

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Management questions

A group or pairwork activity to think of advice for basic business problems.

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Make a decision

A groupwork speaking activity to decide on a course of action in various business situations.

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Likes and dislikes

A pairwork activity to talk about likes and dislikes at work.

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Jobs, salaries, cars

A pairwork speaking activity to exchange information with a partner about a group of managers.

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In the office

A pairwork speaking activity to describe the location of furniture in an office.

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ICI and John Lewis

An information exchange activity about two major companies.