All Intermediate articles – Page 39
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Macmillan Life Skills: People Management – Problems with people
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss some problems at work and then report on the discussions developing the following life skills: giving advice and stating your opinions.
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Lesson Share: Fairyland reloaded
Bálint Gyimesi wins the Lesson Share competition with this fantasy-themed activity designed to help students improve their communicative competence and acquire vocabulary.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 10—Setting personal goals
In this lesson, students can discuss setting and achieving work goals and what changes they can make to improve their performance.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Geek-in-chief
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo. Students discuss women in top positions and the character traits of their ideal boss.
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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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Beyond: Arts and Media: Newspapers
In this two-part lesson, students look at and discuss different newspaper websites, learn about newspaper vocabulary, and write their own newspaper story.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: An impossible dream?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on the American Dream and life in the USA.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 9—Dilemmas
In this lesson, students learn about dealing with dilemmas at work and how to be objective.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Movie review
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students use pictures to write their own film review developing the following life skills: expressing opinions, analysing information and critical thinking.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Critical Thinking – Reviews
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students brainstorm vocabulary for writing a restaurant review, read some example reviews and write their own developing the following life skills: expressing an opinion, critical thinking (analysis and evaluation).
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Lesson Share: Selling a winning idea
Gabrielle Jones wins the Lesson Share competition with this marketing-based activity in which students can learn to describe a process, ask and answer questions about a product, and practise being persuasive.
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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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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 8—Negotiations
In this lesson, students can talk about various negotiation topics and experiences.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: When Superman died
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on the well-known comic figure, Superman, and the creators’ daring decision to kill him off to improve sales.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Time Management – Time is money
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss the metaphor time is money and other time-related expressions developing the following life skills: time management and prioritisation.
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Lesson Share: Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Short answer questions
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students become experts on obscure topics and practice skimming to find answers to questions their classmates have written developing the following life skills: analysing and extracting key information, evaluating content of a reply or argument, and time management.
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LessonLesson Share: What does the colour of your clothes say about you?
Monika Szalwinska-Garbaruk wins the Lesson Share competition with this quiz-based activity designed to generate useful vocabulary to describe personality.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 7—Networking and small talk
In this lesson, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk and learn the language to introduce a third person into a conversation.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Television
In this two-part lesson, students discover if they are TV addicts, and learn about adverbs of frequency, TV vocabulary and types of TV programmes.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Would independence help Scotland?
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, focuses on whether becoming independent would be beneficial for Scotland.