All Upper-Intermediate articles – Page 80
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Writing skills: news story
To help students produce writing with a higher occurrence of lexical variation, complex sentences and appropriate use of passive structures.
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Ten years from now…
A British English worksheet to make predictions about what people will be doing ten years from now.
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ArticleSkills: the same old song
Songs are a popular resource with teachers and learners alike – but, when it comes to exploiting them in class, why on earth does it always seem to be gap-fills? Here are a few alternative ideas.
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Past and present
A British English worksheet to make the past simple form of the verbs by changing a vowel.
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Past and present
A British English worksheet to complete activities to practise using the past and present tenses.
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ArticleSkills: teaching phonics: schwa
The schwa – the only phoneme with its own name – is important for learners to recognise and produce as it is the most common vowel sound in English. Here are some awareness-raising and practice ideas.
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ArticleSkills: teaching phonics: sounds and symbols
Phonemes can be difficult for learners and teachers. Here are a few ideas that could help teachers as well as learners become more comfortable when working with phonemes.
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Vocabulary: when to teach phrasal verbs
Advice and suggestions about when to start teaching phrasal verbs.
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Things to do, places to visit
A British English worksheet to speak to as many partners as possible, asking and answering questions about plans.
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Vocabulary: pre-teaching vocabulary
A discussion about the value of pre-teaching vocabulary.
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Pronunciation skills: Who does what?
Jonathan Marks offers a pronunciation activity, with a helpful key for teachers, that focuses on pronouncing stress in compound nouns.
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Writing skills: statistical report
To teach and practise language relevant to writing a statistical report
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Skills: under the spell of spelling
English spelling? “Wonderful! I love it!” If that isn’t your students’ reaction, you might like to try some of these ideas.
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Spend, spend, spend
A British English worksheet to spend your money as quickly as possible by playing a board game.
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Your views on technology
A British English worksheet to read about and discuss some comments about technology.
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When we were ten
A British English worksheet to find out information about members of the class by asking and answering questions.
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Writing tips
Jackie McAvoy provides some useful tips for integrating writing into your English lessons.
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What's your verdict?
A British English worksheet to read court cases and say whether you think people are guilty or not guilty. To guess the court's verdict.