All American English articles – Page 7
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Go Beyond: Knowledge: Classrooms
In this lesson, students practice describing and comparing classrooms, design their dream classroom, evaluate and discuss school subjects, and review useful classroom language.
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ArticleGlobal: Mount Everest
This infographic lesson looks at interesting facts and figures about Mount Everest.
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ArticleGlobal: Atlantis
globalThis infographic lesson looks at interesting facts and figures about the legend of Atlantis.
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ArticleGlobal: Pay it forward
This infographic lesson looks at interesting facts about the philosophy of paying it forward and the good deeds suggested by people around the world on the UN World Humanitarian Day website.
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ArticleGlobal: World population day
This infographic lesson looks at interesting facts and figures about world population.
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Pronunciation skills: Loosening the ‘grip’ of L1 pronunciation
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the emergence of the ‘L1 grip’ and how best to tackle it.
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ArticleGlobal: Dream, dream, dream ...
This infographic lesson looks at interesting facts and figures about dreams.
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ArticleInteractive phonemic chart: American English
Adrian Underhill's Interactive phonemic chart! This excellent teaching tool can be downloaded (see links below) and played full-screen and gives clear audio examples of the phoneme set for American English.
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Pronunciation skills: The muscle buttons and vowels /iː/ or /uː/
In these two videos, Adrian Underhill explains the physicality of pronunciation and the use of ‘muscle buttons’ to help us vocalize sounds such as vowels /i:/ and /u:/.
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Pronunciation skills: What accent should I teach?
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill addresses your practical concerns on accents, RP and student identity.
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Pronunciation skills: Accents and the L1 grip
Which accent should I teach with? This is a common question that Adrian Underhill answers in the video below as well as tackling the subject of the L1 grip and how to escape it!
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ArticleGlobal: Television
This Global infographic lesson looks at interesting facts and figures about changing trends in television since its inception.
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ArticleGlobal: World Water Day
This lesson and infographic focuses on interesting facts and figures about World Water Day on the 22nd of March.
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ArticleGlobal: Valentine's Day
This lesson and infographic look at interesting facts and figures about Valentine’s Day.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Movie review
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students use pictures to write their own film review developing the following life skills: expressing opinions, analysing information and critical thinking.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Reviews
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students brainstorm vocabulary for writing a restaurant review, read some example reviews and write their own developing the following life skills: expressing an opinion, critical thinking (analysis and evaluation).
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Macmillan Life Skills: Time Management – What are you doing next week?
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students make plans for the following week using an agenda developing the following life skills: time management and planning.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Time Management – Time is money
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss the metaphor time is money and other time-related expressions developing the following life skills: time management and prioritisation.
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Lesson Share: Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Short answer questions
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students become experts on obscure topics and practice skimming to find answers to questions their classmates have written developing the following life skills: analysing and extracting key information, evaluating content of a reply or argument, and time management.