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    Survival Guide: Surviving grammar

    How’s your grammar knowledge? Before you read about surviving grammar, take this short test to find out how much you know and how much grammar you are comfortable with!

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    Your English: Collocations: grudge

    Tim Bowen shows he doesn’t harbour a grudge as he tackles this batch of collocations.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Learning styles

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students interview each other about how they learn English best developing the following life skills: recognising and appreciating different social and personal styles of learning.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Networking – Meeting people

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students practise sharing business card information developing the following life skills: networking and making connections.

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    Your English: Idioms: bone

    Are idioms a bone of contention? Let Tim Bowen sort them out.

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    Your English: Phrasal verbs: brush

    Tim Bowen helps us brush up on our phrasal verbs as he brushes away all confusion.

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    Survival Guide: Troubleshooting

    Oh no! The photocopier isn’t working again … and it’s not just the photocopier! Teachers come up against all sorts of minor and major frustrations every day. Relax and take a deep breath. Our troubleshooting guide will sort everything out for you.

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    Business Spotlight: Selling yourself

    This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how to brand and sell yourself at work. 

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    Have we met? Present perfect and past simple

    Students take part in a whole-class role-play to practise using the present perfect, then switching to the past simple.

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    Lesson Share: The five senses of a verb

    Kat Law wins the Lesson Share competition with this fun lesson, designed to build confidence and improve fluency through oral practice of different verb forms.

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    Full Circle: Part 8

    This advanced-level story is about two writers who were once friends. Their lives have taken very different directions since they left university. One has become a successful novelist; the other is poor and out of work. An advertisement in the paper brings the two together in a new relationship, one ...

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    Full Circle: Part 7

    This advanced-level story is about two writers who were once friends. Their lives have taken very different directions since they left university. One has become a successful novelist; the other is poor and out of work. An advertisement in the paper brings the two together in a new relationship, one ...

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    Full Circle: Part 6

    This advanced-level story is about two writers who were once friends. Their lives have taken very different directions since they left university. One has become a successful novelist; the other is poor and out of work. An advertisement in the paper brings the two together in a new relationship, one ...

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    Full Circle: Part 5

    This advanced-level story is about two writers who were once friends. Their lives have taken very different directions since they left university. One has become a successful novelist; the other is poor and out of work. An advertisement in the paper brings the two together in a new relationship, one ...

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    Your English: Word grammar: clear

    There’s no need to steer clear of this helpful word as Tim Bowen makes everything clear.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Networking – The office party

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students take part in a role-play which prompts them to gossip with colleagues and network with the president of the company developing the following life skills: networking, active listening and building confidence.

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    Your English: Idioms: blow

    Tim Bowen helps us blow away the cobwebs as he shows why these idioms will blow your mind.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Self / Social – Are you experienced?

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students complete a questionnaire about life experiences and find out what their score means developing the following life skills: self-awareness and challenging stereotypes.

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    Your English: Phrasal verbs: bring (4)

    Tim Bowen has definitely brought us round as he brings up this set of phrasal verbs.

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    Survival Guide: Using L1 in the classroom

    Every language teacher has, at some point, felt guilty, puzzled and frustrated about their students’ overuse of their mother tongue in the classroom. In a monolingual context this can become quite a problem.