All Integrated Skills articles – Page 48
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Specialist or generalist?
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, an American career coach discusses why we should consider becoming specialists (rather than generalists).
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Who can you trust?
In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, an American career coach talks about practices and methods used to tell when someone is lying.
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ArticleFootball fanatics
This mini-play features a father and son from Yorkshire, who are on a long-distance journey to a football match. The lesson contains a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher's notes.
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LessonSelections Grade 3: It's a disaster, I tell you!
Get your students talking about a terrible day they had with this lesson by Adrian Tennant.
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Celebrities
This mini-play features two workmen, who are sitting in a roadworks truck near Dartford, reading the paper. The lesson contains a downloadable MP3 audio file and a PDF with student worksheets and teacher's notes.
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Business Spotlight: My home is my castle
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, talks about the Indian government’s use of satellite images of slums and to what ends this information may be used.
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LessonSelections Grade 6: The Long Walk Home
Motivate your students to take a walk in the wild and share their experiences with this lesson by Adrian Tennant.
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Experiments: Roller-coaster ride
In this experiment, students construct a track for marbles to collide on in order to compare the energy stored in a stationary object to the energy of one that is in motion. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise vocabulary related to movement. Students then complete a table and read ...
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Is it ever OK to lie in a job interview?
In this lesson, based on two articles from Business Spotlight magazine, a former recruitment director and a director of an employment website discuss whether candidates should lie in job interviews.
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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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ArticleAmazing World of Animals
These lessons by Carol Read will build your Young Learners’ language skills and knowledge of the animal world.
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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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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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LessonSelections Grade 4: The genie in the jelly jar
What would your young learners wish for if they found a genie in a jelly jar? Talk about it using this lesson by Adrian Tennant.
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ArticleUsing art in the classroom
A series of articles by Jamie Keddie containing lesson plans, teaching tips, and suggestions for using art in the classroom.
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LessonSelections Grade 5: The Life of A Fish
What animal would your students be if they could be an animal for a day? Discuss this fun and engaging topic with this lesson by Adrian Tennant.
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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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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.