All British English articles – Page 63
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LessonSelections Grade 1: Mr Crocodile's toothbrush
Mr. Crocodile has lost his toothbrush! Ask your 1st graders to help him find it with this complete lesson by Adrian Tennant.
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Experiments: Gone with a bang
In this experiment, students make a banger and use this to learn how energy can be released and turned into sound waves. The accompanying activities practise reading instructions and linking words. Key vocabulary and practical teacher's notes are included.
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Experiments: 360-degree periscope
In this experiment, students build a periscope and explore the effects of mirrors on the passage of light. The accompanying activities practise preposition phrases and writing a scientific report. Students predict the results of the experiment using future tense. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s notes are included.
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Spot on news lessons for teens: The world at your fingertips
In this lesson, we meet young people who tell us about their jobs and how they couldn’t do them without speaking English.
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Experiments: Build a sail-car of the future
In this experiment, students make a sail-car and learn how to harness the energy from the wind to power it. The accompanying activities practise the first and second conditional and modals of prediction. Students then design their own car of the future and talk about it using the future tense. ...
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Animal life in the Sahara desert
A worksheet with reading and vocabulary activities on the topic of animals that live in the desert.
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ArticleOnestop Phonics: Long vowel sounds 1
This comprehensive lesson on long vowel sounds contains a flashcard, a downloadable podcast, PDF worksheets and teaching notes by Rachel Finnie.
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ArticleTeaching materials: Teaching with the help of songs
This article by Paul Ashe suggests grammar activities and project work based around listening to music in the classroom.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: End and beginning
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, deals with the problematic but essential Business English topic of losing a job.
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ArticleDominoes: since and for
A domino game at upper intermediate level to practise using since and for with time expressions.
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Spot on news lessons for teens: Earth in danger
This Spot on news lesson is about climate change and the ways in which we can help to save the planet.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Career focus: Recruiter for love
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, Sophia McDonald talks about her company and how her people skills helped her become a successful matchmaker.
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Experiments: Rocket mice
This fun experiment reinforces vocabulary and concepts associated with forces. Students make a rocket mouse and learn how to make it fly with the help of a plastic bottle. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise and consolidate concepts connected to forces. Students then talk about their experiment and write ...
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Spot on news lessons for teens: Cool in Canada
This month's Spot on news lesson visits Canada, where we meet three teenagers from different parts of the country.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: What I've learned: 50 Cent
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, the American rapper 50 Cent talks to the author Robert Greene about his life, career and business decisions.
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Lesson Share: CLIL: Sine and cosine graphs
Robin Summers' excellent 45-minute lesson focuses on the similarities and differences between sine and cosine graphs. Students examine the graphs and write descriptions of them with language guidance from the teacher.
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Lesson Share: CLIL: Pythagoras' theorem
This varied and fascinating lesson by Tereza Benesova enables students to fully understand Pythagoras’ theorem, solve mathematical problems in English and collaborate effectively in groups.
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Lesson Share: CLIL: Math and logic: Deduction and speculation
Yuliya Ivanova's comprehensive lesson is designed to develop and encourage logical thinking. Students complete a number of vocabulary-building activities and then read a puzzling tale which will challenge their ability to deduce and speculate.
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Lesson Share: CLIL: Making sense of road signs
In this fun, hands-on lesson by Gabriela Grigoroiu, students identify and categorize a variety of road signs and then match them with their corresponding words in English.
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Pronunciation skills: Syllabic l
This lesson practises the pronunciation of syllabic l. It occurs in many words with the spelling ‘consonant + le’, and also when the contraction ‘ll occurs after a consonant sound, as in that’ll do.