All Lesson Plan / Teacher's Notes articles – Page 53
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Caught in the act
In this lesson plan, students learn different vocabulary for sporting activities and revise the past continuous.
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Fractions
In this lesson plan, students match fractions to their pictorial depictions, learn how we work out fractions in English and then practise their skills by doing some sums! A multiple choice fractions quiz (on the theme of ’Jenny’s birthday party’) consolidates what they have learnt. Full teacher’s notes provided.
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Three Capital Cities
In this lesson plan, students explore three European capital cities – Copenhagen, Lisbon and Prague – to learn about their history and famous landmarks. Working in groups, students match photographs and descriptions to the correct city, and read texts to match meanings to the appropriate word. Students can extend their ...
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The Weather
In this lesson plan, students match basic weather adjectives with their pictorial depictions, before categorising more subject-specific terminology such as ‘cumulus’, ‘vapour’ and ‘gale’. Students identify these terms in a series of short reading texts and complete a true/false quiz. An extra activity in the teacher’s notes focuses on weather ...
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Spider's fear for the future
In this lesson plan, students ask a partner questions to complete a text about an environmentalist’s concerns. This helps students to practise several verb tenses and question forms.
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Renewable Energy Technologies
In this lesson plan, students read about four sources of renewable energy and discuss which they would invest in.
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Once visited, never forgotten
This reading quiz about Ireland helps students practise their reading skills and learn new vocabulary.
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Hotter and hotter
In this group activity, students discuss the climate and brainstorm ways to prevent global warming.
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Countries of Africa
In this activity, students use the comparative and superlative forms to help their partner guess the appropriate African countries.
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Comparing capitals
In this lesson plan, students work in pairs to compare capital cities London, England and Tallinn, Estonia.
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Spot the Ecological Difference
In this ecological information exchange activity, students ask and answer questions about their pictures of a busy street scene. Vocabulary provided includes: traffic, trees, pure water, solar power and clean air. Includes focused practice of there is/there are and many/much/a lot of.
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Who gets the money
In this lesson plan, students develop and present a business plan while practising the present tense in future time clauses.
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See the world
In this lesson plan, students work in pairs to discuss the potential problems associated with tourism while learning new business vocabulary.
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In the city
In this group activity, students learn about India’s capital city and then write a web page to promote the city of their choice.
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Tourism: Question Loop Speaking Activity
This fun activity can be used at the beginning of a new topic like ’Tourism’ to introduce new material, or the end to revise material already learned.
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Places: Teens chat: History
In this lesson plan, teenagers Anna and Ben chat about an internet history quiz and ask each other quiz questions about history. Students listen to the dialogue then complete a gap-fill, label a world map, match sentences to places on the map and complete a vocabulary exercise on words such ...
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Sports: Two sides of a sport
What are the positive and negative aspects of sport? In this lesson plan, students listen to an overview of the good and bad aspects of practising a sport. A true/false exercise and gap-fill teaches words such as ‘fan’, ‘train’, ‘cheat’, ‘team’ and ‘winner’. A follow-up debate activity gets students to ...