All Writing articles
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LessonThe one change that worked: When good things happen, I write them down – and it’s made me more optimistic
Read about a woman who starts to change her attitude when she makes notes of the good things that happen to her.
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Lesson‘Mingling is part of the adventure’: a family trip to Wales shows why hostels are booming
Read about the advantages of staying in a hostel compared to more private lodgings.
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Lesson‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
Read about a journalist’s experience of a ’clean-boot hunt’, an alternative to traditional hunting in the UK.
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LessonGoogle AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’
Read about how the use of AI as part of Google searches has affected the work of recipe writers.
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LessonIn a reading rut? How to get back into reading for fun
Read about the advantages of reading, why people tend to fall out of the habit and tips on how to rebuild it.
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LessonHow Mortal Kombat (and moral panic) changed the gaming world
Read about the historical importance of Mortal Kombat and how it created a whole new market for video games.
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Lesson‘It made my day more meaningful’: the Japanese gen Zers attempting a two-hour limit on smartphone use
Read about the rule that a Japanese town put in place to restrict smartphone usage and the effect that it had on people.
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LessonCLIL: Geography—Deserts and Rainforests
Talk with your students about the Amazon rainforest and Sahara desert ecosystems with this CLIL lesson.
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ArticleLesson Share: Online restaurant review
Sarah Hall wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to help develop appropriate and authentic language used in online restaurant reviews.
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Lesson Share: Wishes and regrets
Svetlana Gavrilovic wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to practise expressing wishes and regrets using a variety of structures.
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Lesson Share: Winter
James Savery wins this month’s Lesson Share with a lesson to introduce and practise a lexical set about winter.
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Management questions
A group or pairwork activity to think of advice for basic business problems.
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Experiences
A pairwork activity to talk about experiences of using English in business situations.
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A business crossword
A writing and speaking activity to complete a crossword by inventing and exchanging clues.
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What happened?
A groupwork activity to speculate about the possible causes of a number of business situations.