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Word of the week: Green

How green are you? Tim Bowen explains why he's not asking about your colour!

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

An audio serialization of the beginner-level Macmillan Reader, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with accompanying listening activities and transcripts.

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Northanger Abbey: Chapter 1: Audio and activities

An audio serialization of the beginner-level Macmillan Reader, Northanger Abbey, with accompanying listening activities and transcripts. Chapter 1 is now available to all onestopenglish users! Catherine goes to Bath...

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Tom Sawyer: Listening activities: Chapters 5 & 6

Listening activities by Adrian Tennant, including the transcripts for Chapter 5 and Chapter 6.

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Word of the week: Muppet

Remember the cute puppet show? Tim Bowen explains how the word 'muppet' has entered popular slang.

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Tom Sawyer: Listening activities: Chapters 3 & 4

Listening activities by Adrian Tennant, including the transcript for Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.

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Word of the week: Penguin

With global warming high on the agenda at the moment, the possible fate of the penguin has been in the news as its natural habitat is affected by the consequences of rising sea temperatures and diminishing ice cover in the Antarctic. The word penguin is another word for which the ...

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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 13, 14 & 15: Audio and activities

The final three chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom and Becky get lost in the caves...

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Please leave a message after the beep

A lesson to help students practise taking and leaving messages on the phone.

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Cambridge English Proficiency: Listening Part 2

Audio now available! Guidance for teachers preparing candidates for Part 2 of the Listening paper of the Cambridge Proficiency Exam, with a worksheet taken from Mark Harrison's New Proficiency Testbuilder.

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First writing paper: part 2: report

A guided process towards producing accurate report writing based on students’ ideas.

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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 1 & 2: Listening activities

Listening activities by Adrian Tennant to accompany Chapters 1 & 2 of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' podcasts.

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General: Learners look at learning

This month Jim Scrivener talks about how teachers can encourage their students to become more aware of the learning process.

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Lesson Share: Playschool for grown-ups? Changing the rules of the game in language teaching

Daniel Monaghon asks whether game-playing has a legitimate place in the ELT classroom.

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Business skills bank: Managing international meetings

Sara Helm introduces a new series on meetings skills with an article highlighting some of the challenges faced by participants in multinational and multilingual meetings.

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Word of the week: Nice

Are you a nice person? Tim Bowen explains why this popular word hasn't always been a compliment.

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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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Word of the week: Snob

The Macmillan English dictionary for Advanced Learners defines snob as ‘someone who thinks and behaves as if they are better than other people, usually because of their social class’. If you call someone a snob, this usually means that you don’t like their superior attitude and behaviour. Some people have ...

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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 11 & 12: Audio and activities

The eleventh and twelfth chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom and Huck search for buried treasure...

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Word of the week: Rocket science

Rocket science can be broadly described as the science and technology of space research. Few would argue that this particular area of human activity is not a complex one and that rocket scientists are, in all probability, highly skilled and knowledgeable people. In colloquial British English you will often hear ...