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IELTS: Interpreting maps - teacher's notes
Help students to prepare for Task 1 in the academic writing component of the IELTS exam.
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Pronunciation skills: How many syllables?
This lesson by Jonathan Marks focuses on plural nouns and 3rd person singular verbs which are spelt with the ending -es. It helps students to develop an awareness of when this ending represents an additional syllable (e.g. age / ages) and when it doesn't (e.g. behave / behaves).
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Intermediate: How much do you know?
An American English worksheet to practice the past passive.
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Understanding paragraph headings
Help students to prepare for the academic reading component of the IELTS exam.
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ArticleGrammar teaching: Task-based grammar teaching
Lindsay Clandfield discusses task-based grammar teaching and provides a lesson plan based on this methodology which teaches the grammar point used to.
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Grammar: How to prepare it
Practise imperatives; learn useful vocabulary; use sequence connectors; learn how to write a recipe.
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Grammar: Wishes and regrets
Practise expressing wishes and regrets, reading for specific information, dialogue building, fluency.
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Grammar: Money - just imagine!
For the introduction and practice of first and second conditionals, including oral practice.
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Grammar: 'Meet the Parents'
To practise and contrast the past simple and present perfect and give students listening practice of these structures in context. Promotes the use of video as a useful classroom tool. Includes a great warmer 'lie-detector test'.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: Can you do it?
Lindsay Clandfield's winning lesson practises the modal verb can (ability) using a game of questions.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: Professions
To revise vocabulary and general knowledge in relation to professions. To reinforce speaking activities and working together. To revise the simple present tense in context.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: Personality traits
To consolidate understanding of adjectives to describe people's qualities.
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Lesson Share: Grammar: You must not!
Practice in using negative obligations, 'You must not...'
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ArticlePhrasal verbs: I'm going to let you in on a little secret
Another way of teaching phrasal verbs is by teaching a thematic 'set' of phrasal verbs. This lesson presents a set of nine phrasal verbs, all connected to the theme of giving and obtaining information. There is a recognition based activity, followed by a speaking activity to incorporate the phrasal verbs into use.
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ArticleGrammar Games: Pub quiz—Past & Present Simple
Have your students practice Past and Present Simple with this fun trivia game.
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ArticleTeenagers: Grammar: Grammar games
Some games to help teach grammar to teenagers and young learners.
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ArticleGrammar Games: The No-go Game
Have your students practice creatiing sentences using this printable board game.
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Speaking: Sentence structure game
A card game for revising vocabulary, sentence structure and word order.