All Up to 60 mins articles – Page 19

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    Beyond: Knowledge: Classrooms

    In this lesson, students practise describing and comparing classrooms, design their dream classroom, evaluate and discuss school subjects and revise useful classroom language.

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    A Time to Travel: USA: Off to a flying start

    Amber travels back to 1905 to meet famous airplane inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright. Can she manage to avoid crashing one of their original flying machines? In this lesson, students will: learn about the Wright brothers and other American inventors; learn a range of language related to flying; practise extensive and intensive listening and a range of listening sub-skills; complete a memory recall comprehension task to consolidate the story and new language and practise a variety of expressions related to encouragement and reassurance in a role-play task.

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    Business Basics: Greeting a visitor

    In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise greeting a visitor. Exercises include: completing a gap-fill, listening to a conversation, putting the stages of greeting a visitor into the correct order and devising a welcoming procedure.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Get Organised – Opening a hotel

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students must work with a partner to open a new hotel.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Get Organised – Making arrangements

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students practise making arrangements with their classmates developing the following life skills: time management and prioritising.

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    Survival Guide: The emergency activity file

    Some of our favourite activities requiring little or no preparation - designed to be used in a minor or major emergency!

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    Beyond: Arts and Media: Literary lives

    In this lesson, students read biographies, interview their partner and create questions to get information from their teacher.

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    A Time to Travel: China: The girl in the red dress

    In this teens listening lesson about Chinese New Year, students follow Amber and Hongjun as they try to save the villagers from the evil monster Nian.

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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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    A Time to Travel: Knights of the Round Table

    Amber travels back to the time of the legendary King Arthur and finds herself caught up in a thrilling quest to return Excalibur.

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    Business Top Trumps: Lesson 6: Moving premises

    In the sixth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss moving premises and decide which employees could work from home, make a decision on which department could be outsourced and practise writing an email to submit a tender.

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    A Time to Travel: USA: Slaves no more

    Amber journeys back in time to meet Abraham Lincoln and show him how his desire to pass the 13th Amendment changed the course of American history forever. In this lesson, students will: learn about Abraham Lincoln, slavery and black American history; practise extensive and intensive listening and a range of ...

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    Business Basics: Office procedures

    In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise helping a new colleague with office procedures. Exercises include: identifying the correct modal verb, listening to an office conversation, giving advice and writing a set of office procedures.

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    A Time to Travel: England: To be or not to be: The play

    Amber is in 16th century England and needs to buy some suitable clothing from Toby, the market seller so she can audition for Romeo and Juliet and meet Shakespeare. In this lesson students will: revise adjectives for feelings; practise extensive and intensive listening and a range of listening sub-skills; rehearse ...

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    A Time to Travel: England: To be or not to be

    Amber finds herself in a difficult classroom situation so whizzes back to Shakespearean England to find a solution.

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    Business Top Trumps: Lesson 5: Restructuring

    In the fifth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss the financial crisis, practise writing emails, use idioms and phrases to discuss a difficult business situation and role-play a company meeting.

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    Business 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.

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    Lesson Share: Presenting convincing arguments

    Gabrielle Jones wins the lesson share competition with a useful lesson on how to formulate convincing arguments and give structured opinions when debating a topic.

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    A Time to Travel: Brazil: Lost in the rainforest

    In this lesson, students will learn about the Amazon rainforest have a discussion about places they would like to visit.

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    Survival Guide: First classes

    Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.