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Practice reading test 1: answer key
Answer key for the Guardian Weekly reading and exercises.
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IELTS: Describing data-line graphs 1
Some top tips, a lesson plan and a student worksheet about describing data-line graphs to help with the writing component of the IELTS exam.
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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 3 & 4: Audio and activities
The third and fourth chapter of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom's adventure continues...
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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 1 & 2: Audio and activities
An audio serialization of the beginner-level Macmillan Reader, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with accompanying listening activities and transcripts. The first two chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are available free for all users of onestopenglish.
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Reading lesson plans: Santa
Students complete a series of activities based on a text about Santa, in this lesson available at two language levels (Pre-intermediate and Intermediate +).
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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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Lesson Share: Grammar: On the cards
Activities to practise using the past form of irregular verbs.
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First writing paper: part 1
A series of steps, alternately pairwork and teacher-led, to raise awareness of dealing with essay writing and show a way of producing effective answers.
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Getting into intercultural training
John King, a freelance trainer based in York, introduces some key concepts to integrate intercultural training into your best practice.
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Word of the week: Symposium
People normally associate the word symposium with intellectual discussion or as a slightly high-brow word for conference. The Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners gives the following definition: 'a meeting where experts discuss a particular subject'. The word has quite surprising origins, however. It ultimately derives from a Greek word ...
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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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Word of the week: Posh
The Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners defines the word posh as follows: something that is posh looks expensive and attractive. someone who is posh talks and behaves in a way that is typical of people from a high social class. It is widely believed that this word ...
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Imaginative materials: ideas for using advent calendars
In the run up to Christmas, why not take a look at some of Jim Scrivener's exciting ideas for using advent calendars in the classroom.
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Cambridge English Preliminary: Speaking Part 3
Guidance for teachers preparing candidates for Part 3 of the Speaking paper of the Cambridge Preliminary Exam.