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Small can be very, very strong!

A worksheet with reading and vocabulary activities on the topic of the strengths of different animals.

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Experiments: Roller-coaster ride

In this experiment, students construct a track for marbles to collide on in order to compare the energy stored in a stationary object to the energy of one that is in motion. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise vocabulary related to movement. Students then complete a table and read ...

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Selections Grade 1: Mr Crocodile's toothbrush

Mr. Crocodile has lost his toothbrush! Ask your 1st graders to help him find it with this complete lesson by Adrian Tennant.

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Experiments: Gone with a bang

In this experiment, students make a banger and use this to learn how energy can be released and turned into sound waves. The accompanying activities practise reading instructions and linking words. Key vocabulary and practical teacher's notes are included.

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Experiments: 360-degree periscope

In this experiment, students build a periscope and explore the effects of mirrors on the passage of light. The accompanying activities practise preposition phrases and writing a scientific report. Students predict the results of the experiment using future tense. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s notes are included.

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Spot on news lessons for teens: The world at your fingertips

In this lesson, we meet young people who tell us about their jobs and how they couldn’t do them without speaking English.

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Experiments: Build a sail-car of the future

In this experiment, students make a sail-car and learn how to harness the energy from the wind to power it. The accompanying activities practise the first and second conditional and modals of prediction. Students then design their own car of the future and talk about it using the future tense. ...

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Animal life in the Sahara desert

A worksheet with reading and vocabulary activities on the topic of animals that live in the desert.

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Teaching materials: Teaching with the help of songs

This article by Paul Ashe suggests grammar activities and project work based around listening to music in the classroom.

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Spot on news lessons for teens: Earth in danger

This Spot on news lesson is about climate change and the ways in which we can help to save the planet.

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Experiments: Rocket mice

This fun experiment reinforces vocabulary and concepts associated with forces. Students make a rocket mouse and learn how to make it fly with the help of a plastic bottle. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise and consolidate concepts connected to forces. Students then talk about their experiment and write ...

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Spot on news lessons for teens: Cool in Canada

This month's Spot on news lesson visits Canada, where we meet three teenagers from different parts of the country.

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Lesson Share: CLIL: Sine and cosine graphs

Robin Summers' excellent 45-minute lesson focuses on the similarities and differences between sine and cosine graphs. Students examine the graphs and write descriptions of them with language guidance from the teacher.

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Lesson Share: CLIL: Math and logic: Deduction and speculation

Yuliya Ivanova's comprehensive lesson is designed to develop and encourage logical thinking. Students complete a number of vocabulary-building activities and then read a puzzling tale which will challenge their ability to deduce and speculate.

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Pronunciation skills: Syllabic l

This lesson practises the pronunciation of syllabic l. It occurs in many words with the spelling ‘consonant + le’, and also when the contraction ‘ll occurs after a consonant sound, as in that’ll do. 

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Selections Grade 2: I Want Chocolate

Get your young learners to talk about their favourite food and create their perfect menu with this lesson by Adrian Tennant.

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Spot on news lessons for teens: One school, 71 languages

This Spot on news lesson is about the kids in a school in south London. They come from 60 countries and speak a total of 71 languages at home.

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Dictionary skills: Science and technology

A dictionary skills lesson by Tim Bowen about science and technology. Learners practice using dictionaries to check meaning and for vocabulary development.

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Pronunciation skills: Stress in compound nouns

This lesson focuses on stress patterns in compound nouns. Students form compounds to fit definitions then practise them by asking questions.

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Spot on news lessons for teens: Homecoming hero

This month's Spot on news lesson catches up with American teenage sailor Zac Sunderland, as he embarks on the home stretch of his round-the-world voyage.