All Group Work articles – Page 52

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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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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 4—Situations vacant

In this lesson, students discuss what skills are needed to do a particular job, write CVs and formulate interview questions.

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Absolute Beginners: Unit 4 - What’s her name?

Help your absolute beginner students learn to talk about other people’s names and origins with this lesson by Frances Marnie.

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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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Business Spotlight: The best way to say goodbye

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about starting at a company and, more importantly, what bosses should do when someone leaves their company. 

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Absolute Beginners: Unit 3 - How are you?

Help your absolute beginner students learn to talk about how they feel and where they come from with this lesson by Frances Marnie.

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Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad: Part 1

This advanced-level story, by M R James, is set in Burnstow, a seaside town on the east coast of England. It tells of how university professor makes an interesting discovery with disturbing consequences. It is told in seven parts; each part contains audio and an accompanying lesson plan written by ...

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Survival Guide: Teaching under the influence

Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord ask you to consider what impact different teaching methods have had on your teaching and learning and present a brief history of EFL.

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Survival Guide: Teacher’s survival kit

Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord give a run-down of the ten most important tools in a teacher’s locker, plus five survival tools for mobile devices.

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Absolute Beginners: Unit 2 - What's your phone number?

Help your absolute beginner students learn to give and ask for phone numbers in English while practising numbers 0-9 with this lesson by Frances Marnie.

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Business Basics: Taking an order

In this lesson by Rosemary Richey, students practise polite language used when taking customer orders. Exercises include: identifying ‘friendly’ and unfriendly’ language, completing the gaps in a conversation and role-playing two phone conversations.

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Business Top Trumps: Lesson 3—Company profile

In this lesson, students discuss what kind of company the characters work for, answer questions about the company, and write a company profile.

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Business Spotlight: A sixth sense

This advanced-level lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how to improve professional relationships with co-workers. 

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Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: bitcoin

This lesson plan by Kerry Maxwell gives tips and suggestions for using the BuzzWord article on Bitcoin in class.

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Lesson Share: Grammar: Prefixes

Svetlana Urisman wins the Lesson Share competition with an engaging board game activity to help students revise word formation using prefixes.

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Absolute Beginners Series

Frances Marnie introduces a series of ESOL lesson plans aimed at beginner-level students with little or no previous experience in English. 

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Absolute Beginners: Unit 1 - Hello, what’s your name?

Help your absolute beginner students learn to introduce themselves in English with this fantastic lesson by Frances Marnie.

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Health and safety

Students are introduced to the topic of health and safety in this instalment of David Baker’s HR management series. Students read a text about health and wellness and human resource management, and listen to a conversation two colleagues from a Human Resources department about workplace stress.

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Business Basics: Making suggestions

In this business lesson, students practise describing a colleague’s difficult behaviour and making suggestions on how to deal with it.