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Survival Guide: Surviving acronyms
The world of English language teaching (ELT) is awash with acronyms! Here’s a collection of the most common ones.
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Imagine: Future perfect
Students write predictions about their partner. They use language such as ‘In ten year’s time’, ‘By this time tomorrow’ and ‘By 2050’ in order to practise the future perfect.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Have marketers become spies?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, questions whether consumers are aware of how much they are being spied on and how their digital data is used.
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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 12
The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 12, Edward and Miles find themselves in prison but help is at hand and they manage to get out. However, some disturbing news for Edward means that he can’t afford to ...
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Your English: Collocations: grasp
Tim Bowen demonstrates his remarkable grasp of collocations.
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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 11
The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 11, Edward goes with Miles Hendon to Hendon Hall, Miles’s family home, where he is expecting to pick up his old life where he left off ten years ago. His brother ...
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Your English: Idioms: bite
Tim Bowen bites the bullet and serves up his favourite bite-related idioms.
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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 10
The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 10, Edward gets into trouble again and he finds himself even further from the palace and his position as King of England.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Communicate / Cooperate – Blackout
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students role play being stuck in a blackout developing the following life skills: adaptability and decision making.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: bring (2)
Tim Bowen’s certainly not bringing us down as he brings forward his explanation of these phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Word grammar: bum
There’s no bumming around for Tim Bowen as he shows why word grammar is never a bum deal.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Artists
In this lesson, students give opinions about art, draw a picture, pretend to be art critics, describe a picture of a room and talk about their own room.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: MOOCs: A rising tide
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the rising popularity of MOOCs and covers strategies for looking at the pronunciation of acronyms.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Communicate / Cooperate – A class or company newsletter
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students work together as a whole class to create a one-page newsletter developing the following life skills: cooperation, communication and time management.
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Lesson Share: A carnival story
Catherine Zgouras wins the lesson share competition with this fun-filled lesson for young learners.
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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 9
The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 9, Tom gets used to life as King of England and has to make some important decisions.
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Ideal room: There is / there are
Students talk about their ideal room and then compare with their partner’s using there is and there are. They end the activity with a timed memory game working in groups of four.
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Your English: Collocations: goal
Tim Bowen achieves his primary goal with these useful collocations.
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Your English: Idioms: bit (noun)
Tim Bowen’s got the bit between his teeth as he does his bit for Your English.
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The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 8
The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 8, we learn more about Miles Hendon and he and the Prince become friends.