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LessonMacmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: bitcoin
This lesson plan by Kerry Maxwell gives tips and suggestions for using the BuzzWord article on Bitcoin in class.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: Prefixes
Svetlana Urisman wins the Lesson Share competition with an engaging board game activity to help students revise word formation using prefixes.
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ArticleAbsolute Beginners Series
Frances Marnie introduces a series of ESOL lesson plans aimed at beginner-level students with little or no previous experience in English.
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LessonAbsolute Beginners: Unit 1 - Hello, what’s your name?
Help your absolute beginner students learn to introduce themselves in English with this fantastic lesson by Frances Marnie.
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Health and safety
Students are introduced to the topic of health and safety in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series. Students read a text about health and wellness and human resource management, and listen to a conversation two colleagues from a Human Resources department about workplace stress.
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Business Basics: Making suggestions
In this business lesson, students practise describing a colleague’s difficult behaviour and making suggestions on how to deal with it.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Coca-Cola's biggest mistake
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about Coca-Cola and a far-reaching marketing decision the company made in the 1980s.
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ArticleLesson Share: Socializing
Gary Jones wins the Lesson Share competition with a fabulous lesson plan to help students practise making small talk.
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Business Basics: Ordering a service or product
In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise language related to describing products and services in a sales context. Exercises include: completing information from an IT website, asking and answering questions, and writing a service profile.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 2—Company structure
In this lesson, students will complete an organigram of a fictional company and talk about their own company’s structure.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Henry Ford's $5 pay offer
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the visions and decisions of Henry Ford and how they impacted on the Ford Motor Company.
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Mobile English: Secret instructions
Students use mobile phones or voice recorders to deliver instructions that include phrasal verbs/verb + particles.
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ArticleLesson Share: Telling an anecdote
Gabrielle Jones wins the Lesson Share competition with an imaginative speaking activity to help students practise telling anecdotes.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 1—Playing the game
In the first lesson of this engaging series, students get to know the Top Trumps cards and learn how to play the game.
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Selection and recruitment
Students are introduced to the topic of selection and recruitment in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series. Students read a text about the crucial role of recruitment and selection and listen to a conversation two colleagues from a Human Resources department about modern recruitment practices.
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Second Best: Part 2
In Part 2, the final part of this story, the sisters walk through the countryside and come across Tom Smedley, an admirer of Frances. In this lesson, the students will: recap Part 1 of the story; listen for gist and detail; listen to the effect of short sentences on mood; ...
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LessonTopics: Easter
Introduce your students to the topic of Easter while they practice reading, listening, and speaking.
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The Shadow and the Flash: Part 5
In Part 5, the concluding part of this science fiction story, Paul and Lloyd finally confront each other. In this lesson, the students will: look back over the story so far; practise listening for gist; listen for detail; discuss the tragic end of the story; study the effect of long ...
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Calm and productive
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about work-related stress, what consequences it has and how it can be relieved.
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Mobile English: Digital word banks
Students create individual or class image banks to record the vocabulary they study in class.