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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 6

    The audio and activities for the sixth part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 6, the Worthing house receives another guest from London, this time Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen. Merriman the servant announces her arrival to Cecily. How will the women in ...

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Get Thinking – Politics

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students read extracts from newspaper articles about politics as well as listen to a radio news story developing the following life skills: critical thinking and social responsibility.

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    The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 2

    The audio and activities for this elementary-level Macmillan Reader are now available to all Staff Room members. In Chapter 2, the kind-hearted prince gives Tom an invitation to lunch, to the surprise of the guards and servants. Both boys are interested to learn how the other one lives but their ...

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    Your English: Word grammar: brief

    Tim Bowen briefs us on the uses of brief in this brief look at word grammar.

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    Your English: Collocations: gesture

    In a gesture of goodwill, Tim Bowen explains the uses of this tricky word.

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    Lesson Share: Talking about the future

    Jessica Rundell wins the lesson share competition with a lesson on future forms and how to choose the right one in conversation.

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    Survival Guide: Surviving teaching in companies

    Teaching English in companies can involve teachers working in an unfamiliar environment with restricted resources and a range of cultures, customs and constraints they are not accustomed to.

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    Beyond: Arts and Media: Art

    In this lesson, students take an art survey, talk about art galleries and paintings, learn about Leonardo Da Vinci, explore the mysteries of the Mona Lisa and write a story.

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 5

    The audio and activities for the fifth part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 5, Jack expresses his anger at Algernon’s arrival to the country house by telling him to leave. Algernon, in love with Cecily, wants to spend more time ...

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    The Prince and the Pauper

    An audio serialization of the elementary-level Macmillan Reader, The Prince and the Pauper, is told in sixteen chapters. Each chapter is accompanied by a comprehensive lesson plan written by Adrian Tennant, including teacher’s notes, with suggestions for extension activities, plus student worksheets and a full transcript and glossary. 

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    The Prince and the Pauper: Chapter 1

    An audio serialization of the elementary-level Macmillan Reader, The Prince and the Pauper, is told in sixteen chapters. Each chapter is accompanied by a comprehensive lesson plan written by Adrian Tennant, including teacher’s notes, with suggestions for extension activities, plus student worksheets and a full transcript and glossary. The ...

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    Holiday game: Future of can/can't

    An activity where students receive an exciting holiday and must list all the things they will and won’t be able to do on their given holiday practising the future of can and can’t.

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    Business Spotlight: Quiet, please

    This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about being an introvert in, what can sometimes seem like, an extrovert’s world. 

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    Business Basics: Socializing with clients

    In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise small talk about weather, hotels and travel. Exercises include: revising small talk vocabulary, ordering words to make questions, listening to small talk conversations in a business scenario and role-playing.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Get Thinking – Museums

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students read and listen to reviews about museums and discuss their own preferences developing the following life skills: learner autonomy, giving feedback and social responsibility.

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    Your English: Idioms: beat

    Tim Bowen isn’t beating around the bush in this instalment of Your English. We say you can’t beat it!

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    The Importance of Being Earnest: Part 4

    The audio and activities for the fourth part of this upper-intermediate-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. In Part 4, we meet Cecily, Jack’s young ward, and her governess, Miss Prism, at Jack’s country house. Cecily receives an unexpected visitor whom she is very pleased to ...

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    Your English: Phrasal verbs: ask

    We couldn’t have asked for a clearer explanation, as Tim Bowen sheds light on these tricky phrasal verbs.

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    Macmillan Life Skills: Know Yourself – Have you ever ... ?

    In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students play a speaking board game developing the following life skills: analysing information, creativity and imagination.

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    Your English: Word grammar: blank

    Don’t blank out the intricacies of word grammar, let Tim Bowen fill in the blanks.