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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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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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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Should networking sites be banned from work?
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, two experts offer differing opinions on whether social networking should be used at work.
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Dog owners
This lesson plan provides listening and language exercises for students. It focuses on relationships we have with our pets as well as British culture.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Emotional roller coaster
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, looks at the personal conflicts two managers faced as they took the most difficult management decisions of their careers.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Specialist or generalist?
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, an American career coach discusses why we should consider becoming specialists (rather than generalists).
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Assessment matters: Exams extra (upper-intermediate to proficiency)
In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the exams materials available on onestopenglish outside of the main 'Exams' section and suggests how they could be used in your teaching.
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Who can you trust?
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, an American career coach talks about practices and methods used to tell when someone is lying.
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ArticleFootball fanatics
This mini-play features a father and son from Yorkshire, who are on a long-distance journey to a football match. The lesson contains a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher's notes.
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Celebrities
This mini-play features two workmen, who are sitting in a roadworks truck near Dartford, reading the paper. The lesson contains a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher's notes.
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Business Spotlight: My home is my castle
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, talks about the Indian government’s use of satellite images of slums and to what ends this information may be used.
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ArticleMini Plays: The Clothes Shop
Boost your students' listening skills with this mini-play of two friends shopping in Manchester.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Is it ever OK to lie in a job interview?
In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight magazine, a former recruitment director and a director of an employment website discuss whether candidates should lie in job interviews.
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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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ArticleTeaching 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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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: End and beginning
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, deals with the problematic but essential Business English topic of losing a job.
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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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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Career focus: Recruiter for love
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, Sophia McDonald talks about her company and how her people skills helped her become a successful matchmaker.
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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.