All Up to 60 mins articles – Page 26
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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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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 12—Making proposals
In this lesson, 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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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 11—Presentations
In this lesson, students learn different ways of starting and giving a presentation.
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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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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 10—Setting personal goals
In this lesson, students can discuss setting and achieving work goals and what changes they can make 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.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Newspapers
In this two-part lesson, students look at and discuss different newspaper websites, learn about newspaper vocabulary, and write their own newspaper story.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 9—Dilemmas
In this lesson, students learn about dealing with dilemmas at work and how to be objective.
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Beyond: Knowledge: The brain
In this three-part lesson, students do a quiz about the human brain and test their memories, discover which side of their brain is dominant and find out about Albert Einstein.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 8—Negotiations
In this lesson, students can talk about various negotiation topics and experiences.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Time Management – Time is money
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss the metaphor time is money and other time-related expressions developing the following life skills: time management and prioritisation.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 7—Networking and small talk
In this lesson, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk and learn the language to introduce a third person into a conversation.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Television
In this two-part lesson, students discover if they are TV addicts, and learn about adverbs of frequency, TV vocabulary and types of TV programmes.