All Advanced articles – Page 34

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Speaking matters: Developing fluency

Adrian Tennant presents an article covering various aspects of teaching fluency in speaking, including sections on what is meant by fluency, why students find fluency difficult and the role of the teacher in fluency activities.

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Branches of law

A lesson to equip students with the knowledge and language to discuss the different branches of law in England and Wales, and to compare these to the legal system in their own countries.

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Socializing in English

In this basic business skills lesson by Sara Helm, students use a modal verb wheel to create sentences and practise functional dialogues they can use in a social context.

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Lesson Share: Discussions: Proverbs

A discussion and game using proverbs.

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Email expressions

Lessons to equip students with some basic vocabulary they may need for writing emails.

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Grammar: Doctor Who?

Here are four games from Jim Scrivener based around the theme of finding out who someone is or who did something. Great for five-minute fillers, or end-of-term lessons!

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English contracts

A lesson on drafting contracts which aims to help students set out expectations and objectives in a formal way.

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Lesson Share: Grammar activities: I have never ...

An activity to revise the present perfect and to share personal information.

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Cambridge English Proficiency: Listening Part 1

Guidance for teachers preparing candidates for Part 1 of the Listening paper of the Cambridge Proficiency Exam, with a worksheet taken from Mark Harrison's New Proficiency Testbuilder.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Tag teams

To practise making tag questions by guessing information about other students.

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Lesson Share: Team games: Competitive quiz

This activity can be used for any level, any age and any aspect of grammar, depending on the focus at any given time.

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ESP bank: Hospitality and tourism: Handling guest complaints in hotels

This lesson aims to equip students with the language they will need when transferring the skill of handling guest complaints effectively from their own language to English.

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Lesson Share: Speaking: Murder in the classroom

Students take on roles in a murder mystery game and work together to discover the identity and motive of the murderer.

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Grammar: I've been waiting for ages

Tips and ideas for working with the present perfect continuous.

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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Talk when the music stops

A lively mingle activity to get students moving and talking about various topics.

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American English vocabulary lessons: the letter C

C is for cars, clothes and city.

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Personal profile builder and CV builder

This activity can be used with pre-service learners; learners who are looking for a new job and those who work in the recruitment area of HR. This profile can then be inserted into a complete CV which can be created using the CV Builder worksheet and lesson plan.

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Vocabulary: Vocabulary review activities

An activity to review coursebook vocabulary and aid retention.

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Speaking matters: Role-play

In this article we look at role-play. The article discusses why, when and how to use role-play in your classes. The article rounds off with examples of role-plays as well as a link to another article.

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Business English in HR

This article gives an overview of teaching English for human resource professionals. It is linked to a ‘think about’ task on planning a sequence of lessons.