All Up to 60 mins articles – Page 21
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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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleA 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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ArticleA 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleBusiness 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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ArticleLesson 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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ArticleSurvival Guide: First classes
Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.
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Survival Guide: Surviving the job interview
Here we offer support in preparing for a job interview, including practical advice, questions you wished you’d asked and, importantly, what NOT to say!
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 4: Situations vacant
In the fourth lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what skills, qualifications and experience are needed to do a particular job well, write CVs and formulate interview questions.
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Survival Guide: Teaching under the influence
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord ask you to consider what impact different teaching methods have had on your teaching and learning and present a brief history of EFL.
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ArticleSurvival Guide: Teacher’s survival kit
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord give a run-down of the ten most important tools in a teacher’s locker, plus five survival tools for mobile devices.
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Business Basics: Taking an order
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise polite language used when taking customer orders. Exercises include: identifying ‘friendly’ and unfriendly’ language, completing the gaps in a conversation and role-playing two phone conversations.
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ArticleBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 3: Company profile
In the third lesson to accompany the Business Top Trumps card game, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company and write a company profile.
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LessonMacmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: bitcoin
This lesson plan by Kerry Maxwell gives tips and suggestions for using the BuzzWord article on Bitcoin in class.