All Article articles – Page 104

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    Describing a country: Spain

    Teaches the geographical features of Spain and other key facts about the country, including its currency and capital city.

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    Tourism in Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs)

    Students are introduced to the term ‘LEDC’ and asked to consider the implications of tourism in this thought-provoking worksheet. Group and pair work encourages students to think about the different areas of life affected by tourism and talk about their own experiences. Full teacher’s notes accompany these exercises.

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    Changes in Tourism in Western Europe

    Through listening to an interview, students are introduced to how money, mobility and air travel have affected tourism in Western Europe. Teacher’s notes accompany the listening and writing exercises and include the interview script.

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    Football 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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    Your English: Collocations: intense

    As ever, Tim Bowen applies intense concentration and produces another powerful Your English article.

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    Experiments: Nails trick

    In this experiment, students attempt to defy gravity by balancing 14 nails on the head of one nail. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise related vocabulary and verbs in the imperative. Students then write a report of the experiment using the past tense. Key vocabulary and practical teacher's notes ...

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    Quiz: Present passives

    A card game at upper intermediate level to practise using present passives that can be played as a group game or a team game.

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    Your English: Idioms: anger

    Never one to blow his top, Tim Bowen takes a deep breath and calmly delivers some idioms related to rage.

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    Trying New Things

    A song video and interactive games on the subject of learning and trying new things.

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    TKT: Feature identification

    In the eighth article in this series, Kay Bentley explains how feature identification can be used as a task. Feature identification is not only helpful for the understanding of subject knowledge but also for identifying text types.

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    Your English: Phrasal verbs: eating and drinking

    Tim Bowen serves up some delicious phrasal verbs. Tuck in!

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    Your English: Word grammar: Some uses of 'like'

    Tim Bowen treats the likes of us to an article on a frequently-used word that is, like, so useful.

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    Your English: Collocations: dense

    If you get yourself lost in a dense forest does that make you pretty dense? Tim Bowen explores the various collocations of this versatile (and sometimes offensive) adjective.

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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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    Your English: Idioms: The elements

    Spring is in the air but you might want to hold fire on organizing a barbecue as the unpredictable weather might pour cold water on your plans. Tim Bowen braves the elements.

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    Editorial: Focus on news stories

    In May's editorial, Keith Kelly draws attention to materials relevant to the eruption of, and disruption caused by, the Icelandic volcano among other recent world news stories.

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    Guessing activity: like + -ing

    A guessing activity at elementary level to practise like, don’t like, love, hate + -ing with quite, really, at all and very much.

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    TKT: Wait time

    In the seventh article in this series, Kay Bentley discusses why wait time is an important issue in the CLIL classroom.

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    Your English: Phrasal verbs: some lonely phrasal verbs 6

    Tim Bowen revel s in some more lonely phrasal verbs.