All Intermediate articles – Page 40
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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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Have we met? Present perfect and past simple
Students take part in a whole-class role-play to practise using the present perfect, then switching to the past simple.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Networking – The office party
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students take part in a role-play which prompts them to gossip with colleagues and network with the president of the company developing the following life skills: networking, active listening and building confidence.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Self / Social – Are you experienced?
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students complete a questionnaire about life experiences and find out what their score means developing the following life skills: self-awareness and challenging stereotypes.
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Survival Guide: Using L1 in the classroom
Every language teacher has, at some point, felt guilty, puzzled and frustrated about their students’ overuse of their mother tongue in the classroom. In a monolingual context this can become quite a problem.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Graffiti
In this lesson, students read about famous walls and graffiti, create their own graffiti artwork, describe a bedroom wall and learn wall idioms.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Self / Social – My kind of people
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students complete sentences about people, things and places they like. Then, they ask each other questions to find out about their classmates’ preferences developing the following life skills: expressing your opinion and accepting diversity.
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LessonLesson Share: Alien trouble
Check out this lesson designed to improve communication skills… it’s out of this world!
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Evidence: Past modals
Students work together to decide who they think commited a burglary using evidence cards and practising past modals.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Invisible man
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s head of design, a man who could be famous, but isn’t.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Career / Work – Who gets the money?
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students work in groups to expand on a business idea and present it to the rest of the class developing the following life skills: critical thinking and citizenship.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Career / Work – CV Builder
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students discuss the purpose of a CV and using the worksheet create their own CV developing the following life skills: gathering and organizing information, prioritization, motivation, goal setting and values.
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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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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: Have marketers become spies?
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, questions whether consumers are aware of how much they are being spied on and how their digital data is used.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Communicate / Cooperate – Blackout
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students role play being stuck in a blackout developing the following life skills: adaptability and decision making.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Artists
In this lesson, students give opinions about art, draw a picture, pretend to be art critics, describe a picture of a room and talk about their own room.
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ArticleBusiness Spotlight: MOOCs: A rising tide
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the rising popularity of MOOCs and covers strategies for looking at the pronunciation of acronyms.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Communicate / Cooperate – A class or company newsletter
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students work together as a whole class to create a one-page newsletter developing the following life skills: cooperation, communication and time management.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Respect Others – Confrontation
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students role play mini-conversations about difficult situations at work developing the following life skills: handling criticism, receiving and giving feedback.
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Lesson Share: Bon voyage
Dan Cornford wins the lesson share competition with a lesson on reading and retelling travel anecdotes.