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Training
Students are introduced to the topic of training in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series. Students read a text about the importance of training and listen to a conversation between two colleagues from a Human Resources department about how job satisfaction can change at different times in life.
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Survival Guide: First classes
Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.
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Business Basics: Comparing products and services
In this business lesson, students practise language associated with comparing products and services in a sales context.
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How to write vocabulary activities
In an extract from ELT Teacher2Writer’s training module, Philip Kerr offers some helpful tips on how to go about writing vocabulary activities, considering word selection, word frequency and grouping vocabulary items.
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How to write vocabulary activities: Key
Key to Task 1: Word frequency and Task 2: Collocations.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 10: Cambodia
In their tenth travelogue, Rich and Nick journey to Cambodia where they meet Sokha, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime and founder of the Center for Children’s Happiness, an organization offering children an education and a chance for success.
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Your English: Collocations: frank
Tim Bowen offers up an admirably frank discussion in this week’s set of collocations.
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Your English: Idioms: worse
Feeling the worse for wear? You could do worse than catch up with Tim Bowen’s newest selection of idioms!
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: wipe
Tim Bowen wipes out confusion with his latest article on phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Word grammar: snap
Come on. Snap to it! Read Tim Bowen’s latest musings on word grammar!
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Survival Guide: Surviving the job interview
Here we offer support in preparing for a job interview, including practical advice, questions you wished you’d asked and, importantly, what NOT to say!
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Stories behind words
Are you a teacher with an anecdote to share? Then the Macmillan Dictionary Blog would love to hear from you!
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Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad: Part 2
In Part 2 of this horror story, Parkins is in Burnstow and explores the site of an old church where he finds a mysterious object. In this lesson, the students will: talk about museums and learn the names of some artefacts; practise listening for gist to order events in the ...
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Business Spotlight: Small is now big
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the trend towards holding bespoke business gatherings at luxury boutique hotels rather than in conventional business hotels.
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Macmillan Education Innovative Writing Award: Q&A with Teresa Ting
The winner of the 2013 Macmillan Education Innovative Writing Award at the British Council ELTons, Teresa Ting, tells us about her work, her motivations and the importance of winning the award.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 9: Grub's up
In their ninth travelogue, our tuk tuk travellers navigate their way through South East Asia and all its culinary delights. In Laos they meet Chanhpheng, a young teacher from Vientiane who founded an education program for disabled women, run by disabled women.
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Your English: Collocations: footing
Are we all on an equal footing when it comes to collocations? Here’s Tim Bowen with his feet firmly on the ground.
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Your English: Idioms: wits
Do idioms frighten you out of your wits? Tim Bowen’s razor-sharp article is here to save the day.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: walk
Tim Bowen is not one to walk out when it comes to phrasal verbs. Don’t walk off before you’ve finished reading this article!
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Your English: Word grammar: like
If you’d just, like, give him a chance, Tim Bowen will explain a whole lot of word grammar to the likes of us.