All Mixed Ability articles – Page 27
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Newspapers
In this two-part lesson, students look at and discuss different newspaper websites, learn about newspaper vocabulary, and write their own newspaper story.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 9—Dilemmas
In this lesson, students learn about dealing with dilemmas at work and how to be objective.
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Beyond: Knowledge: The brain
In this three-part lesson, students do a quiz about the human brain and test their memories, discover which side of their brain is dominant and find out about Albert Einstein.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 8—Negotiations
In this lesson, students can talk about various negotiation topics and experiences.
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Lesson Share: Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Short answer questions
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students become experts on obscure topics and practice skimming to find answers to questions their classmates have written developing the following life skills: analysing and extracting key information, evaluating content of a reply or argument, and time management.
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Teaching toolBusiness Top Trumps: Lesson 7—Networking and small talk
In this lesson, students talk about how to initiate and continue small talk and learn the language to introduce a third person into a conversation.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Television
In this two-part lesson, students discover if they are TV addicts, and learn about adverbs of frequency, TV vocabulary and types of TV programmes.
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Macmillan Life Skills: Study Skills – Learning styles
In this Macmillan Life Skills lesson, students interview each other about how they learn English best developing the following life skills: recognising and appreciating different social and personal styles of learning.
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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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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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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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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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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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Beyond: Knowledge: Learning
In this lesson, students complete a questionnaire to find out about their learning style, work in groups to write suggestions on how to improve their learning and discover the history of encyclopaedias.
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Beyond: Arts and Media: Art
In this lesson, students take an art survey, talk about art galleries and paintings, learn about Leonardo Da Vinci, explore the mysteries of the Mona Lisa and write a story.
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LessonMacmillan Dictionary BuzzWord: anecdata
This lesson plan by Kerry Maxwell gives tips and suggestions for using the BuzzWord article on anecdata in class.
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Beyond: Knowledge: Classrooms
In this lesson, students practise describing and comparing classrooms, design their dream classroom, evaluate and discuss school subjects and revise useful classroom language.
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ArticleBeyond on onestopenglish: Arts and Media
Karen Kovacs introduces this collection of topical lessons for teenagers related to art, television, literature, theatre, advertising, and the press. Students practise speaking and further subskills while being creative.
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ArticleBeyond on onestopenglish
Your teenage students will love using this fantastic series of British English lessons prepared by Karen Kovacs.