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    Inventions

    Who invented the teabag? When was the paperclip invented? Which invention might you find in a kitchen and a church? This series of activities gets students in teams to find out the answers to these questions while learning all sorts of fascinating facts! A follow-up activity focuses on past tenses ...

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    The History of Money

    Did you know that historians believe the Chinese were the first to use paper money, or that cocoa beans served as currency in ancient Mexico? In this lesson plan, students work in pairs to learn about money, from its earliest forms to the bank cards we use today, including the ...

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    Natural Materials

    In this lesson plan, students learn about the properties of silk, cotton, wool and leather, how these materials are produced and how they are used. A matching exercise helps students to learn new vocabulary such as ‘cocoon’, ‘crop’, ‘synthetic’ and ‘unravel’. Includes teacher’s notes with a list of useful websites ...

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    The History of Basketball

    When a Canadian teacher was trying to think of a way to keep his students fit during the winter months little did he know that he was about to invent the most popular indoor sport in the world: basketball, now played in over 150 countries. In this worksheet students learn ...

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    Great Composers

    This lesson plan will help to encourage an appreciation for classical music by introducing students to three great composers: Mozart, Liszt and Rachmaninov. Working together in pairs or in small groups, students learn about the composers’ lives and legacy through information gap, reading and matching exercises and also have an ...

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    Pathology of vision: Everyday problems

    In this lesson plan, students first consider the process of refocusing the eye and why motion sickness happens. In pairs, students examine diagrams of myopia and hyperopia and describe what causes it. Key terms are provided in a Useful language box. A gap-fill text focuses on conjunctivitis and introduces terms ...

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    Amazing world of food: Lesson 4: Our sense of taste

    In the fourth lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to understand the role of taste buds, identify four basic tastes and relate them to different parts of our tongue, and carry out a tasting experiment. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are included.

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    Mini-plays: Air travel

    This mini-play features a couple who are waiting for their flight at Birmingham airport.

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    Lesson Share: Grammar: Celebrity wedding planner

    Jodi Hope catches Royal Wedding fever with a love-themed winning lesson that practises modal verbs.

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    The Secret Garden: Chapter 7

    The audio and activities for the seventh chapter of this pre-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Mary gets to know her cousin …

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    Communication

    A worksheet and lesson plan to teach about the different modes of communication, from the printing press to the computer.

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    A healthy diet

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn about a healthy diet and the origin of different foods while practicing the present tense, expressions of frequency, food vocabulary, time and days of the week.

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    Tickcharts, Venn diagrams and grids

    This is the second set of worksheets that accompany Jean Brewster’s introduction to process skills and data-handling. Moving from tickcharts, the easiest type of graphic organizer, to Venn diagrams and grids, this series of exercises enables children to examine the differences and similarities between types of big cat. Includes speaking ...

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    Amazing world of food: Lesson 3: Fruit and vegetables

    In the third lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to identify and describe different types of fruit based on climate and parts of plants where vegetables are from. They then design a leaflet to promote eating fruit and vegetables. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student worksheets are ...

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    Lesson Share: Integrated skills: Fairytale bad guys

    Dimitra Eleftheriou-Ernst wins the Lesson Share competition with a creative classroom activity combining role-play, tabloid journalism, mythical characters and some stunning artwork.  

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    The Secret Garden: Chapter 6

    The audio and activities for the sixth chapter of this pre-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Mary hears crying in the house again and discovers the source …

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    British English vocabulary lesson: Hospital

    This lesson plan, available at Elementary and Upper intermediate levels, practises vocabulary connected with hospitals.

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    Wild animals: Mammals, reptiles and birds

    In this lesson plan, pupils learn the characteristics of our furry, scaled and feathered friends.

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    Amazing world of food: Lesson 2: The food pyramid

    In the second lesson of Carol Read’s Amazing world of food, children learn to identify and describe food groups and what you need to eat to have a healthy, balanced diet, recognize and understand the role of nutrients in food, and plan a healthy picnic. Step-by-step teacher’s notes and student ...

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    Relationships

    This mini-play features two friends chatting about relationships in a Bolton cafe. The lesson contains a downloadable audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher’s notes.