All Up to 60 mins articles – Page 27

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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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    Business 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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    Business 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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    Business 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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    Business 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.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Learning styles

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students interview each other about how they learn English best developing the following life skills: recognising and appreciating different social and personal styles of learning.

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    Beyond: Knowledge: Dictionaries

    In this lesson, students complete an information-gap activity about Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary, learn how to be better dictionary users, identify parts of speech and compete in a dictionary quiz.

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    Full Circle: Part 8

    This advanced-level story is about two writers who were once friends. Their lives have taken very different directions since they left university. One has become a successful novelist; the other is poor and out of work. An advertisement in the paper brings the two together in a new relationship, one ...

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    Full Circle: Part 7

    This advanced-level story is about two writers who were once friends. Their lives have taken very different directions since they left university. One has become a successful novelist; the other is poor and out of work. An advertisement in the paper brings the two together in a new relationship, one ...

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    Full Circle: Part 6

    This advanced-level story is about two writers who were once friends. Their lives have taken very different directions since they left university. One has become a successful novelist; the other is poor and out of work. An advertisement in the paper brings the two together in a new relationship, one ...

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    Full Circle: Part 5

    This advanced-level story is about two writers who were once friends. Their lives have taken very different directions since they left university. One has become a successful novelist; the other is poor and out of work. An advertisement in the paper brings the two together in a new relationship, one ...

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Networking – The office party

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students take part in a role-play which prompts them to gossip with colleagues and network with the president of the company developing the following life skills: networking, active listening and building confidence.

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    Survival Guide: Using L1 in the classroom

    Every language teacher has, at some point, felt guilty, puzzled and frustrated about their students’ overuse of their mother tongue in the classroom. In a monolingual context this can become quite a problem.