All Language / Skill articles – Page 2
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IELTS practical tips: Making a point with vocabulary
IELTS teacher Iffaf Khan offers practical tips and strategies to help students to increase their vocabulary, in preparation for the IELTS speaking and writing exams.
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IELTS practical tips: Encouraging different types of reading
IELTS teacher Iffaf Khan offers practical tips and strategies to help students to improve their reading skills for the IELTS exam.
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Business 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.
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Business Spotlight: Selling yourself
This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about how to brand and sell yourself at work.
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Business 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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Business 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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Business 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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Business Spotlight: When eBay bought Skype
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about eBay’s acquisition of Skype. Teacher’s notes cover strategies for looking at the detail of written language.
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Business Spotlight: Quiet, please
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about being an introvert in, what can sometimes seem like, an extrovert’s world.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Get Thinking – Museums
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students read and listen to reviews about museums and discuss their own preferences developing the following life skills: learner autonomy, giving feedback and social responsibility.
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The Shadow and the Flash: Part 2
In Part 2 of this science fiction story, we learn about the two men’s different theories of invisibility as they continue to be locked in a fierce battle for success. In this lesson, the students will: talk about invisible characters in fiction; listen for gist; discuss the anachronistic racist labelling ...
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A shape exhibition
A great lesson plan that uses coloured pencils and cut-outs to introduce or review shapes.
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Assessment matters: Exams extra (elementary to intermediate)
In this article, Adrian Tennant takes a look at some of the exams materials available on onestopenglish outside of the main 'Exams' section and suggests how they could be used in your teaching.
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Spotlight on you
A British English worksheet to write a question for each student in the class. To ask and answer questions.
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What are you doing next week?
A British English worksheet to make plans for the following week and arrange times and places to meet other members of the class.
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Memory Test
A British English worksheet to look at a picture for a short time and to memorize as many details as possible.
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One thing leads to another
A British English worksheet to put the stages of a relationship in order according to different criteria.
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When and what?
A British English worksheet to ask and answer questions about daily routines.
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Spot the similarities
An American English worksheet to find similarities between two different pictures by asking and answering questions. To write brief descriptions of the pictures.
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Job priorities - teacher's notes
To read about and discuss things that are important for people when looking for a job.