All History articles – Page 5
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Beyond: Knowledge: Numbers
In this two-part lesson, students match numbers with pictures, find numbers in the classroom, play a numbers game and complete a ’fill a head with numbers’ fact sheet.
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Lesson
Beyond: Knowledge: History
In this two-part lesson, students read about how Hollywood changes history, discuss historical quotes, do a historical fact quiz and write a fact sheet.
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Lesson
Beyond: Knowledge: The brain
In this three-part lesson, students do a quiz about the human brain and test their memories, discover which side of their brain is dominant and find out about Albert Einstein.
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Beyond: Knowledge: Dictionaries
In this lesson, students complete an information-gap activity about Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary, learn how to be better dictionary users, identify parts of speech and compete in a dictionary quiz.
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Beyond: Knowledge: Geography
In this lesson, students identify flags, create a world flag, play a team board game and complete a geography quiz.
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Beyond: Knowledge: Learning
In this lesson, students complete a questionnaire to find out about their learning style, work in groups to write suggestions on how to improve their learning and discover the history of encyclopaedias.
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Beyond: Knowledge: Classrooms
In this lesson, students practise describing and comparing classrooms, design their dream classroom, evaluate and discuss school subjects and revise useful classroom language.
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ArticleBeyond on onestopenglish
Your teenage students will love using this fantastic series of British English lessons prepared by Karen Kovacs.
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LessonLive from London: The monarchy
In the weeks leading up to Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, onestopenglish’s reporters took a trip to St James’s Park, in the shadow of Buckingham Palace, to ask locals and tourists for their opinion on the British royal family.
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Reading: Gaudí
A worksheet with reading and comprehension activities on the life of the architect Gaudí.
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Warmer/FillerCLIL History: The Middle Ages
Check out this engaging Question Loop activity associated with the Middle Ages.
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Article
The Romans
What did the ancient Romans eat? What games did Roman children play? How many people could attend chariot race? In this lesson plan, students learn about this ancient civilization and strengthen their vocabulary with words such as aqueduct, lavish and enable.
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Mysteries of lost worlds
In this group activity, students discuss the mysterious monuments of lost civilizations and speculate how and why they were built.
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Mayans and Incas
In this lesson plan, students work in pairs to read about two ancient civilizations and identify differences between the two.
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Christopher Columbus
In this lesson plan, a fun multiple-choice quiz tests students’ knowledge of Christopher Columbus. An information-gap reading activity gets them to check their answers to the quiz. Students then read an article on Columbus and correct the factual mistakes. A vocabulary activity asks students to focus on words such as ...
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Blackbeard the pirate
In this lesson plan, students read about Blackbeard and then ask a partner questions about him.
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Charles Darwin
Did you know that Charles Darwin was the grandson of the prestigious china maker Josiah Wedgwood, or that he planned to become a doctor but instead chose to study theology? In this lesson plan, students learn about this famed naturalist, his voyages around the globe, and his theory that shook ...
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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.