All Vocabulary articles – Page 38

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    Metaphors: It's all in your mind

    A lesson plan by LIndsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words related to the mind.

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    Metaphors: Anger is heat

    A lesson plan by Linsday Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases related to anger.

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    Metaphors: Illness and disease

    A lesson plan by Lindsay Clandfield to highlight some of the metaphors in English that surround the treatment of diseases like AIDS and cancer.

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    Metaphors: Honesty and dishonesty

    A lesson plan by Lindsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases related to honesty and dishonesty.

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    This restless Earth

    Show your students how volcanoes are formed while teaching key subject vocabulary such as magma, lava and crater.

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    Metaphors: Happy and sad

    A lesson plan by Lindsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words or phrases related to the emotions of happiness and sadness.

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    Metaphors: Intelligence is a light

    A lesson plan by Lindsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words related to intelligence.

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    Metaphors: Life is a journey

    A lesson plan by Lindsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases describing life experiences.

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    Metaphors: Responsibilities are like weights

    A lesson plan by Lindsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and expressions related to responsibility.

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    Metaphors: Money is a liquid

    A lesson plan by LIndsay Clandfield to introduce between ten and fifteen expressions connected to money in a business/professional context with an emphasis on meaning and using the phrases.

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    Metaphors: Making mistakes

    A lesson plan by LIndsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several phrases related to making mistakes.

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    Metaphors: Winning

    A lesson plan by Lindsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical meanings of several words and phrases related to winning and losing in sports.

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    Metaphors: Time is money

    A lesson plan by Lindsay Clandfield to highlight the metaphorical concept in English that 'time is money'.

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    Your English: Word grammar: up

    Tim Bowen has upped his game again with this instalment of highly useful word grammar.

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    Your English: Idioms: books

    Tim Bowen stays in our good books with a shelf full of literary idioms.

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    River action

    Show students how ox-bow lakes are formed while teaching them key subject vocabulary such as meander, erosion and alluvium.

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    Your English: Phrasal verbs: scrape

    Have you ever struggled to scrape together enough money to pay the bills? Or scraped through in a sports tournament? More phrasal verbs courtesy of Tim Bowen.

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    Your English: Collocations: energy

    Read the fruits of Tim Bowen's boundless energy in this blast of collocations.

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    Experiments: 3D shadows

    In this experiment, pupils learn how to produce the illusion of a 3D shadow using two different coloured light sources and colour-filtered glasses. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise related vocabulary and prepositional phrases. Students then discuss the outcome of the experiment with a partner and write a report ...

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    Experiments: Conductors and insulators

    Which materials are good conductors and which are good insulators? This experiment uses polystyrene foam, metal, wood, glass and plastic to explore the properties of conductors and insulators. Step by step teaching notes and student worksheets help teachers and students get the most from the experiment and develop language learning ...