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    Teaching materials: Teaching with the help of songs

    This article by Paul Ashe suggests grammar activities and project work based around listening to music in the classroom.

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    Business 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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    Selections 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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    Using 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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    Selections 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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    Dominoes: since and for

    A domino game at upper intermediate level to practise using since and for with time expressions.

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    Spot on news lessons for teens: Earth in danger

    This Spot on news lesson is about climate change and the ways in which we can help to save the planet.

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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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    Spot on news lessons for teens: Cool in Canada

    This month's Spot on news lesson visits Canada, where we meet three teenagers from different parts of the country.

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    Business Spotlight: What I've learned: 50 Cent

    In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, the American rapper 50 Cent talks to the author Robert Greene about his life, career and business decisions.

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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.

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    Lesson Share: CLIL: Pythagoras' theorem

    This varied and fascinating lesson by Tereza Benesova enables students to fully understand Pythagoras’ theorem, solve mathematical problems in English and collaborate effectively in groups.

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    Lesson Share: CLIL: Math and logic: Deduction and speculation

    Yuliya Ivanova's comprehensive lesson is designed to develop and encourage logical thinking. Students complete a number of vocabulary-building activities and then read a puzzling tale which will challenge their ability to deduce and speculate.

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    Lesson Share: CLIL: Making sense of road signs

    In this fun, hands-on lesson by Gabriela Grigoroiu, students identify and categorize a variety of road signs and then match them with their corresponding words in English.

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    CLIL: The senses

    In Veronika Zikova's two 45-minute lessons, students distinguish the differences between solids, liquids and gas, study ‘phase transition’ and reinforce key vocabulary in various exercises.

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    Pronunciation skills: Syllabic l

    This lesson practises the pronunciation of syllabic l. It occurs in many words with the spelling ‘consonant + le’, and also when the contraction ‘ll occurs after a consonant sound, as in that’ll do. 

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    Business Spotlight: Planning the future

    In this lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, two students who study abroad talk about matters that are important to them, such as tuition fees and future job prospects. 

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    Board game: can (ability)

    A fluency-based board game at elementary level to practise can in statements, negatives and questions.

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    Selections Grade 2: I Want Chocolate

    Get your young learners to talk about their favourite food and create their perfect menu with this lesson by Adrian Tennant.

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    Travel agents

    The sixth lesson plan in this series by Keith Harding is available at two levels - elementary and intermediate - and contains comprehensive teacher's notes and student worksheets. The elementary lesson practises vocabulary related to holidays and dealing with bookings, while the intermediate lesson concentrates on language related to advertising and superlatives.