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ArticleGlobal: World Water Day
This lesson and infographic focuses on interesting facts and figures about World Water Day on the 22nd of March.
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Lesson Share: An interview with Daniel Radcliffe
Colm Boyd wins the Lesson Share competition with this interview-based activity, designed to help teenagers and adults practise writing questions and improve real-life listening.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Magazines
In this lesson, students can exchange celebrity gossip and create their own magazine.
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Sherlock: The Second Stain: Chapter 1
In Chapter 1, the Prime Minister needs help with a very delicate matter.
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Sherlock: The Norwood Builder: Chapter 4
In Chapter 4, Holmes is feeling a lot more cheerful, believing he now understands the crime. With the help of Watson and the police, he sets a trap. It is not long before the police have the criminal in their custody and the story is clear for all. But how did Holmes figure it out?
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ArticleGlobal: Valentine's Day
This lesson and infographic look at interesting facts and figures about Valentine’s Day.
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Beyond: Knowledge: Numbers
In this two-part lesson, students match numbers with pictures, find numbers in the classroom, play a numbers game and complete a ’fill a head with numbers’ fact sheet.
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Sherlock: The Norwood Builder: Chapter 3
In Chapter 3, Holmes is confused after visiting McFarlane’s parents and Oldacre’s house in Norwood. Then, a telegram arrives from Inspector Lestrade, and Holmes and Watson hurry back to the scene of the crime, where fresh evidence makes both detectives believe they are right. What does Holmes know that Lestrade doesn’t?
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 12: Making proposals
In the twelfth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn about the language of corporate responsibility through future forms, conditionals and modals.
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Recent trends and patterns in Western European tourism
Through listening to or reading an interview, students learn about some of the reasons behind the recent changes in the way Western Europeans travel.
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Tourism in Thailand: Upper intermediate
Students are given the chance to critically assess the difference between advertising and reality in the tourist industry.
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Sherlock: The Norwood Builder: Chapter 2
In Chapter 2, Inspector Lestrade arrests McFarlane in Holmes’s apartment, but Holmes asks the inspector to let McFarlane speak before they take him away. Lestrade gives him just half an hour to tell his side of the story.
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Sherlock: The Norwood Builder
In Chapter 1, McFarlane bursts into Holmes’s apartment on Baker Street and begs him for help. The police are chasing him but he has just enough time to pique Holmes’s interest before Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, rushes in.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Soap operas
In this lesson, students read about soap operas and write their own soap opera scene.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 11: Presentations
In the eleventh lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students learn different ways of starting a presentation, to describe charts and graphs, and how to invite and deal with questions.
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Macmillan Life Skills: People Management – Problems with people
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss some problems at work and then report on the discussions developing the following life skills: giving advice and stating your opinions.
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Lesson Share: Fairyland reloaded
Bálint Gyimesi wins the Lesson Share competition with this fantasy-themed activity designed to help students improve their communicative competence and acquire vocabulary.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 10: Setting personal goals
In the tenth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students can talk about setting and achieving work-based goals, how happy they are in their work, and what changes could be made to improve their performance.
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Beyond: Knowledge: History
In this two-part lesson, students read about how Hollywood changes history, discuss historical quotes, do a historical fact quiz and write a fact sheet.
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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.