All Elementary articles – Page 44
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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 11 & 12: Audio and activities
The eleventh and twelfth chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom and Huck search for buried treasure...
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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 9 & 10: Audio and activities
The ninth and tenth chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom and Joe decide to become pirates, then attend a funeral and a trial...
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Reading lesson plans: Plastic
Students are encouraged to think about the impact of plastic bags on the environment.
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Socializing in English
In this basic business skills lesson by Sara Helm, students use a modal verb wheel to create sentences and practise functional dialogues they can use in a social context.
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Warmer/FillerYoung Learner Festivals: Pancake Day
Share this fun-packed series of lessons with your young learners with activities, games, and, most importantly, pancakes!
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Speaking matters: Developing and dealing with accuracy
Adrian Tennant presents an article covering what we mean by accuracy and how it can be developed effectively. The article rounds off with some practical ideas for the classroom.
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Vocabulary: Telling the time
Some ideas from Jim Scrivener for practising telling the time using clocks and students' own watches.
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Tom Sawyer: Chapters 7 & 8: Audio and activities
The seventh and eighth chapters of this beginner-level Macmillan Reader are now available for all Staff Room members. Tom and Huck write their promise in blood and Muff Potter is sent to jail...
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ArticleReading lesson plans: Astrology
Students complete a series of activities based on a text about astrology, including a jigsaw reading on Western and Chinese astology.
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Young learner topics: Drawing houses
A comprehensive lesson plan by Hans Mol to practise descriptive vocabulary. Children finish by describing and drawing their own house.
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Warmer/FillerYoung Learner Festivals: Christmas
Get your students into the Christmas spirit with these activities about Christmas in the UK.
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Lesson Share: Team games: Competitive quiz
This activity can be used for any level, any age and any aspect of grammar, depending on the focus at any given time.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: On the cards
Activities to practise using the past form of irregular verbs.
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Imaginative materials: ideas for using advent calendars
In the run up to Christmas, why not take a look at some of Jim Scrivener's exciting ideas for using advent calendars in the classroom.
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American English: In the classroom
Teaching the vocabulary of the classroom used in American English.
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Warmer/FillerYoung learner games: Spell well
A game to help students practise spelling words together.
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Warmer/FillerYoung Learner Festivals: Bonfire night
Talk to your young learners about bonfire night using these fun games and activities.
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Reading lesson plans: Pearls
Students complete a series of activities based on a text about pearls.
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Lesson Share: Mingle activities: Snowball fight
A short ice-breaker activity which encourages students to mingle and share information about themselves in the very first class.