All British English articles – Page 55
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ArticleMusical medley
The first of these worksheets looks at a number of instruments and questions which would make the highest and lowest sounds? The second worksheet provides answers to this question.
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ArticleMusical instruments: Joaquin Rodrigo
In this lesson plan, pupils learn about the different types of musical instruments and one of Spain’s most famous composers, Joaquín Rodrigo.
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Creating characters
This lesson plan will encourage creativity and inspire an appreciation of literature. Young learners design a book cover and then create and describe their own fictional character, while learning to plan their ideas and organise their work before writing.
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The story of the Trojan wars
Through a short reading and labelling activity, this worksheet tells the story that started the Trojan wars. Pupils then retell the story of Achilles in five pictures and captions.
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Shakespeare and Cervantes
A lesson plan with information-gap and matching exercises to introduce pupils to these great writers.
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Predicting the contents of a book
In this lesson plan, pupils speculate about what kind of books four characters might like before choosing a book for them based on four book covers. They then complete a text with blurb for the back cover of a book.
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Warmer/FillerCLIL: Literature - Poetry appreciation
Nurture a passion for poetry and enhance the speaking abilities of your young learners with this lesson plan and worksheet.
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Literary appreciation
This is a lesson plan to help young learners acquire the basic skills they need to appreciate books: pupils classify books as fiction or non-fiction and identify the general contents of a book from its cover. Pupils put the lesson into practice through suggested follow-up activities for the classroom and ...
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J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter
In this lesson plan, pupils discuss their favourite books and learn about this author and her hugely popular series.
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Finding out information from a book cover
You can judge a book by its cover! In this lesson plan, pupils compare storybook dragons using front and back book covers. Consolidates superlatives and adjectives such as ’clever’, ’beautiful’ and ’funny’. Teacher’s notes suggest additional classroom activities to engage pupils and encourage reading.
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Warmer/FillerFantasy characters
Describing story characters is an important stage in the development of creative writing. In this worksheet, pupils match pictures and text descriptions to fairytale creature before writing their own description of a fantasy character.
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ArticlePrehistory
In this lesson plan, pupils learn about how prehistoric people lived and what they ate.
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Pirates II
This lesson plan has a fun code-breaking exercise and other classroom activities to teach pupils about famous pirates in history.
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ArticleFamous explorers
In this lesson plan, students find out about the lives and amazing achievements of Captain James Cook (world famous explorer), Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space) and Roald Amundsen (first explorer to reach the South Pole).
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Weather symbols
This worksheet will reinforce pupils’ familiarity with common weather symbols and strengthen their ability to discuss the weather. Among the activities: pupils match weather symbols to the appropriate adjective and describe the weather in their own town. The teacher’s notes include suggestions for classroom activities to further enhance pupils’ understanding ...
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Weather crossword
A lesson plan where students fit the nine words into the puzzle to learn about thunder, hail and other weather events.
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Weather and clothes
This lesson plan emphasises the influence of weather on the clothes we wear, while reinforcing clothing vocabulary. Activities include a fun drawing exercise to engage pupils’ creativity.
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The four seasons
In this lesson plan, pupils assemble a cut-out to revise the seasons and weather vocabulary.